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Devon and Cornwall
Notes and Queries.
Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries
a Quarterly Journal devoted to the
Local History Biography and
Antiquities of the Counties of
Devon and Cornv^^all edited by JOHN
S Amery Maxwell Adams
E WiNDEATT and H TAPLEY-
Soper
Volume IX
From January 1916 to October 1917
JAMES G. COMMIN
230 HIGH STREET
EXETER
1917
6g56i7
LIST OF PLATES.
Mommient of Kathenne Pole in Colyton Church
Liturgical MS. in Exeter Cathedral Library ...
Specimen of Leofric A. (Bodleian Library)
The Rev. William Henry Thornton ...
Old Fire Hooks at Truro ...
Prowse Shield of Arms in Chagford Church
Armorial Bearings at the Abbofs Lodge, Exeter
Devon Clay Pipes and Whig Curlers
Book Label of Fidelio Murch
Book Labels of P. F. Maurice and fohn Pope
Book Labels of Geo. Portbury and Abel Sweetland
Marks on Pewter — Plate I
Marks on Pewter — Plates II and III
Marks on Pewter — Plates IV, V and VI
C. L. Hart-Smith
Arms of the Planters of New England
Thurstan Peter
Carew-Mohun Chinineypiece ...
Virginal by Charles Rewallin of Exeter
97. 98
PAGE
I
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65
73
81
& 99
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225
233
241
Monument of Katherine Pole (born Popham),
in Colyton Church.
Photo In Mr. A. Hartley, Colyton.
Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries*
I. Armory on Pole Monument in Colyton Church. —
On the monument in the " Pole Aisle," Colyton Church, to
the memory of Katherine (died 28 Oct., 1588), wife of William
Pole, Esquire, and daughter of Alexander Popham, of Hunts-
worth, are four shields of arms in the cornice above the
kneeling effigy. They are: — i. Argent on a chief gules two
stags' heads caboshed or — Popham, impaling Paly of six argent
and azure, on a bend gules three mullets or. — Stradling.
2. Stradling impaling Sable, six hirondelles 3, 2, i, argent —
Arundell. 3. Popham impaling Gules, on a bend argent
three escallops sable — Knoell. 4. Knoell impaling Argent,
a saltire gules between four eagles displayed azure — Hampden.
Sir John Arundell,=Katerin, da. of Sir John
of Yewton Arundell. I Chideock, of Chideock.
Sir Thomas Arundell=Katerin, sister
and co-h. of John,
Lord Dinham.
f4-y Thomas Knoell,:
or Sandford Orcas,
son of Wm. Knoell.
Kateryn'=Sir Edward Stradling,
Arundell,
"my great-
grandmother."
Sir Wm. Pole.
of St. Donat's,
Glamorgan.
(^)
Isabell=John Popham, C"5;^
Knoell I of Huntsworth,
I CO. Somerset.
:Elizabeth. da.
Thom.as Han
den, of Mag
Kimball, c
Bucks.
Joan=Alexander Popham, f) j
Stradling. I of Huntsworth. ''^
William Pole,:
of Shute, born iSif, " within one
year old at his father's death " ;
died 15 Aug., bur. 24 Aug., 1587.
M.I. Colyton Church.
=Katherine Popham,
died 28 October, 1588
M.I. Colyton Church.
Sir William Pole, Knight,
of Colcombe, Colyton, " The Historian,"
bap. Colyton, 17 Aug., 1561 ;
bur. Colyton, 9 Mar., 1635.
bur. 9 November.
A. J. P. Skinner.
2 Dbvon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
2. bovby and the coronation of queen victoria.
Verses on the Coronation of Queen Victoria composed at
that date. They were recited by Mrs. John Shears, a
native of Bovey Tracey, in Bradford, on New Year's Day,
1914. She was aged 84. She was daughter of John Coish,
who fought at the battle of the Nile, and Betty (n6e
Goodyear) his wife.
King William the Fourth, one year has been dead,
And now Queen Victoria reigns in his stead.
The Royal young Princess promoted to reign,
And this is the day for Queen to be crowned.
The singers of Bovey together agreed,
And all through the Town in concert agreed,
And music and singing as they went along,
And Queen Victoria was the theme of their song.
Now early the morning the bells they did ring,
And the birds of the air did merrily sing.
The Vulcans' brave sons their anvils did fire,
And the day for to keep was their desire.
The Wesley scholars, you very well know,
To Chellow Brook Farm, with their teachers did go ;
And dinner for them there was there prepared,
Which teachers and scholars their banquet did share.
The dinner being over, back they retreat,
And the Baptist scholars in Town they did meet.
Then these two parlies you very well know,
To Vicarage House together did go.
And then the Church scholars with them did unite,
And that was a pleasing and beautiful sight ;
The Vicar did after at this place appear,
And by a chance he sat on a chair, his seat he did take.
And a very grave speech the doctor did make.*
Old brave master Hall, the man of renote,
And then on the Heath the games did promote ;
The prizes were won, to me it was told,
The running and racing like Grecians of old.
There was plenty of cider for people to drink,
And some had too much, you can very well think ;
So the spile was stopped no more to be had,
And so the fellows looked sour and fad.
Jack Shears, Bradford.
• This verse apparently includes part of a missing verse. The doctor
referred to was Dr. Haydon.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 3
3. John Weston, Sculptor, Exon. — Can any readers
of D. S'C. N. S* Q. give me any information about John
Weston, an Exeter sculptor who worked at the beginning
of the 1 8th century. He executed several monuments in
our parish churches, all marked by the same characteristics
— mural tablets, at the base of which are marble reliefs
upheld by skulls. The earliest of these is at Ashprington,
near Totnes, on a monument of John Kelland 1712. The
rehef represents the last judgment. The same subject is
sculptured on the memorial of Jonathan I vie 17 17, now in
St. Petrock's Church, Exeter, formerly at St. Kerrians. The
work is very good, in fact the best of all these reliefs. It
was photographed for me by Miss K. M. Clarke as an
illustration for my Exeter Churches. The late Mr. R. Dymond
said that the sculpture was signed ** John Weston fecit,"
but I have never been able to find the signature. It may,
however, be behind the monument, and Mr. Dymond may
have seen it on its removal from St. Kerrian's Church.
Another representation of the same subject is at Whitchurch,
Tavistock ; the memorial commemorates " John Francis Pen-
gelly, barrester, Jan. i, 1722." Here the work is signed " John
Weston fecit Exon." At St. Andrew's, Plymouth, a relief
with the Resurrection is appended to the monument of Canon
Gilbert ryya. The large mural tablet to Captain Joseph
Taylor, at Denbury, has a naval battle sculptured on just such
another relief. Recently while noting this monument I
glanced at tlie skulls and reflected, " This is like Weston's
work." Immediately afterwards I perceived "John Weston
fecit " at the top of the monument. The date of this memorial
is 1733, which makes it the latest example of Weston's work
known to us.
Beatrix F. Cresswell.
4. Oliver Mainwaring (V., par. 37, p. 50). — To the
incomplete pedigree can now be added one match.
Oliver Mainwaring of Exeter and Windleshaw, co. Lanes.,
was the seventh son of George Mainwaring of Exeter (he
was a noted Recusant), He married Margaret Torboch,
second surviving daughter and co-heir of Wm. Torboch of
Torboch Hall, co. Lanes., gent., and Katharine, daughter of
Sir Thomas Gerard, of Bryan, co. Lanes.
4 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
References: — Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 36924, Court Book of
Little W'otton Manor, in Childwall, co. Lanes., ff. 167-235.
Duchy of Lancaster Pleadings, vol. 165, No. M7, P.R.O.
Bill of Complaint of Oliver Maynwaringe of the Cittie of
Exeter, gent., et ux. vs. W'"- Orme.
Foley's Records of the English Province, S.J., Archives of
D. and C, Exeter, 2488a.
Release by Oliver Mainwaring of Dawlish, gent., of Cp.
Anne lands in the D. and C, 1665.
As cited, p. 64 Studies in the Topography of tlu Close, Exeter, by
Miss E. Lega-Weekes, Exch. Depon. (8 Car. IL, Michm., No. 27.)
Deposition by Oliver Mainwaring of Dawlish, gent.
Howard M. Buck.
5. Remains of an Ancient Building in Exeter
(VIII., p. 237, par. 181). — It would be a matter of great
interest to learn from Miss E. Lega-Weekes of what
date — or at least what period — were the ancient floors she
mentions as having their "joists morticed into a rec-
tangular frame of massive timbers, partly supported by
the studs of oak partitions bearing on the ground, but
independent of the walling, save that two of the lateral
beams were put-logged into the masonry at either end."
For unless they were unquestionably of Norman date they
could hardly be quoted as afTording any parallel for what
might have been in the Norman building in Preston Street.
Any details of internal Norman domestic construction are
not abundant, and this would be a very interesting one
of which to have clear evidence.
I am quite ready to allow — as I did in my paper —
that there is no decisive evidence of the Preston Street
building having been a Norman Chapel ; but I am afraid
I, for one, do not think that any of the evidence brought
forward by Miss Lega-Weekes is any more decisive for
the opposite possibility. And I may add that, although
almost all the twenty-eight chapels of Peter de Palerna's
will are supposed to have been identified, yet, if Col.
Harding's reference to the ancient Missal of S. Martin's
Church [see Transactions of the Exeter Diocesan Architectural
Society, vol. iv., pt. ii., p. 117, footnote 9] is correct
there were 32 known at a very early date, of which two
at least, if not more, are still unidentified.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 5
The report of the Society for the Protection of Ancient
Buildings, from which Miss Lega-Weekes quotes, was made
subsequently to the publication of my paper, and I there-
fore had no opportunity of referring to it, but I may now
say, after reading it, that in the main its details accord with
those I have given, though several of some significance are
omitted. But in the matter of the two roof principals,
which are therein assigned to the 14th century, and said
by me to belong to the 15th, I should Hke, without being
too positive as to my correctness, to draw attention to
an important paper in the Archaological Journal (vol. Ixxi. pt. 4)
by Mr. F. Howard, A.R.I.B.A., on timber roofs, in which
he gives, — in Figs. 17, 18 and 19, — examples of fifteenth
century arch-braced west-country roofs, which show a very
close similarity to that of this building. In the same
footnote quotation from this Report (p. 237), Miss Lega-
Weekes has accidentally given ^east part of the house' in
mistake for ^west'; and she quotes * oak-panelling ' as being
therein mentioned as a 14th century detail, which I think
is also a mistake, as I cannot find any passage in the
Report that either states or implies this.
As to the stone-arch of the ' back doorway,' it should
be noted that I also pointed out that it was of earlier date
than the 15th century alterations. E. K. Prideaux.
6. Parish Registers Inaccuracies. — Genealogists
are often puzzled and sometimes led astray by their inability
to reconcile evidence taken from Parish Registers with data
gleaned from other sources. In early days various methods
seem to have been adopted by incumbents for entering up
their registers. Some entered the particulars immediately
after the ceremony had taken place; others seem to have
done it periodically from rough notes, and some from memory
— a very unsatisfactory procedure. From the fact that some
entries have been cancelled we can only conclude that the
entry was made before the ceremony. At Ottery St. Mary,
during part of the 17th century, it was the practice of the
Clerk to make the entry in a skeleton form and for the
officiating clergyman to fill in the names, &c. This is
evident from the fact that a number of entries are, in the
main, in the same hand with blanks filled in by another
6 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
person, but in some instances, unfortunately, the blanks
remain. A case of an apparently postponed entry, filled in
from memory, has just come under my notice. By the
courtesy of the Rev. R, Jenkins, a transcript was recently
made of the Register of Talaton for the Devon and Cornwall
Record Society. Under the date 4 ffeb., 1657, in the Marriage
section is the following entry : — " Phillip Wesscott, gent., of
estbudly & Mrs. Mary Cottle." But a certificate of this
marriage, on a parchment slip 6^ ins. x 2J ins., which has
recently come into my possession, reads : —
" Devon. Upon the certificates of the sworn pish
Registers of East Budley & Tallitone of the due publicacon
of an intent of marriage betweene Philip Westcot of East
Budley aforesd, gent., and Mrs. Mary Cottle of Talliton
aforesaid I doe hereby Certifie that they are married by me
the eight and twenteth day of January 1657 in the psents
of these witnesses. And in testimony hereof I have hereunto
set my hand & seale the daye and year aforesaid.
Witnesses :
Freeman Parr. [Signed] Jo. Serle
John Dunn."
The discrepancy in this instance is not very great, but
I think it is worth recording as a warning to those engaged
in genealogical research that the records found in parish
registers cannot always be relied upon, and that in cases of
conflicting evidence allowance should be made for careless
and procrastinating parsons.
It should also be noted that these two documents, both
written within a few days of each other, probably by the
same person, provide evidence of the irregular spelling of
proper names, a matter of no little moment to those
collecting genealogical memoranda. H. Tapley-Soper.
7. Newton Ferrers: Error in Cal. Inq. 10 Edw.
III." — In a recent Record Office publication ("Cal. of Inquisi-
tions, 10 Edw. III.") Westneyweton, in Cornwall, the home
of John, son of Nich. de Ferrariis, is identified as Newton
Ferrers. This is very misleading, as the latter place is in
Devon, and was held by another branch, whose members
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 7
employed much the same Christian names, and on that
account are often hard to distinguish from their Cornish
cousins of CalHngton and West Newton. The latter Newton
was probably called " West " to distinguish it from the better-
known Newton Ferrers. Old Sarum.
[The above is reprinted from Notes and Queries, Jan. 2, 19 14.]
8. Nicholas Isacke, Mayor of Exeter. — Dr. Brush-
field, in a paper, " Richard Izacke and his Antiquities of
Exeter," Devon Assoc. Trans., vol. xxv., note, p. 453, says:
*' Nicholas Isacke the Mayor was Richard's brother." This
is an error. Nicholas Isacke, Sheriff of the City of Exeter,
1661, Bailiff 1663, and Mayor 1665, was a son of William
Isack, of Gittisham, gent, (died 1656), and his wife Margaret,
sister to Christopher Symes, of West Milton, Dorset, and
grandson of Nicholas Isac, of Sidford, yeoman (died 1598).
Nicholas Isacke, the Mayor, married first, 24 Nov., 1656,
in the Cathedral, Elizabeth Davy, widow, of John Davy,
of Ruxford, Sandford, where he was buried 8 Aug., 1647,
and daughter of Edward Cotton, Rector of Shobrooke, where
she was baptized 20 Jan., 1618, and Archdeacon of Totnes,
son of William Cotton, Bishop of Exeter. She was buried
in the Cathedral, 17 Nov., 1664. They had issue —
1. Nicholas Isack, died 1686.
2. Charles Isack, baptized in the Cathedral, 28 Dec, 1661 ;
of St. Margaret's, Westminster. Will dated 6 Sept., 1684 !
proved 3 Oct., 1684 (P.C.C, 126 Hare). He married
Ann Hagedott, of the City of Exeter {Mar, Lie. Exeter,
3 Oct., 1681) ; probably a daughter of Peter Hagedott,
Mayor, 1669, died 10 Apr., 1674 ; buried in the north
transept of the Cathedral. M.I. Her will, as of
Ottery St. Mary, widow, was dated 12 April, 1706;
proved 15 Oct., 1706 (P.R., Bishop of Exeter).
3. Elizabeth, married William Battishill.
He married a second wife, Mary, buried in the Cathedral
7 Jan., 1674.
Nicholas Isack died 5 June, 1678, and was buried
in the south aisle of the Choir of the Cathedral. His
Latin memorial inscription is given in Hewett's Monu-
mentarium, Trans. Ex. Dioc. Arch. Soc, vol. iii., p. 120.
The inscription to Peter Hagedott is given on p. 119.
George i
of Fluxton, Ottery St. Mary, gent., Attorney-atI
one of the four Governors of The College, <
St. Mary, bur. Ottery, 9 June, 1632. Will ji
20 Aug., 1632 (P.C.C, 126 Audley.)
George Isack,=
=Ann, da. of
3 " '
Elizaheth= wife =
of Ottery St. Mary.
Edward Os-
CROCKER.ofHath-
borne, of Clist
erlcigh, 3 wife.
St. George, and
Marr. lie, Exeter,
his wife Joan,
15 May, 1676;
da. of Gilbert
bur. Ottery St.
Drake, of Little-
Mary 20 April,
ham. Bap. Clist
1701. Will dat.
St. G. 26 May,
20 .March, 1698 ;
1596 ; mar. lie,
Prov. 23 March,
E .X e t e r , 23
170J (Archd.
April, 1624.
Exeter.)
1
George Isack, Gilbert Isack Jo
bapi. Ottery St.
Mary, 27 March,
1626.
Samuel Isack,:
Member of the
Inner Temple,
1617; Town
Clerk of Exeter
4 May, 1624.
Bur. Ottery St.
Mary 14 Feb.,
168 I. Will
dat. 20 June,
1678 ; Prov. 9
March, 1681.
(P.C.C. 34
Cottle, also
P.R. Exeter.)
:ANN)K
The!
of
Cou
Ma
Otte
1601
10
bur.
Exe
1628
George
Isack,
bur. St.
Martin's,
Kxeter,
I Sept.,
1689.
Osmond
Isack,
bapt
St.
Martin's,
Exeter,
1=5 Oct.,
1633 ;
bur.tliere
23 Apl.,
1635-
Elizabeth,
bapt. St.
Martin's,
Exeter,
2 May,
1635-'
Samuel Isack,=
bapt. St. Martin's,
Exeter, 16 July,
1637; ExeterColl.,
Oxford, matric. 28
March, 1655 ; B.A.
4 Nov., 1658; M.A.
fromLincolnColl.,
1661 ;B.& D.Med.
Exeter Coll., 6
July, 1675 ; bur.
St. Martin's Chan-
cel, Exeter, 25
Nov., 1693. Ad-
mo n: as M.D.
of Exeter, 1694.
(P.R. Exeter.)
Mary,=
da. of
Robert
Duke,
of
Ottery
St.
Mary,
marr.
lie,
Exeter,
3oOcL,
1677.
Marshall
Ayer, of
Fen
Ottery,
as
second
wife,
marr.
Fen
Ottery,
12 June,
1704.
Samuel I
bapt. Ottet
Mary, 6
1622 ; bur
Martin's,E:
26 June, 16
Mary.
bapt. St.
Martin's
Exeter,
28 Jan.,
1678.
Robert Isack,
bapt. St. Mar-
tin's, Exeter,
23 Sept., 1680 ;
Exeter Coll.,
Oxford, matric.
13 May, 1702.
Samuel Isack,
bapt. Ottery St.
Mary, 3 Aug.,
1682 ; matric.
Exeter Coll.,
Oxford, 13 May,
1702.
I
Elizabeth,
bapt. Ottery
• St. Mary, 30
Oct., 1684.
Elizabeth,
bapt. Ottery
St. Mary, 25
May, 1686.
Marg.
bapt. C
St. .Mar
May, 16
A daughter buried St. Martin's,
Exeter, 8 April, 1693.
Samuel Isack,
bapt. St. Mary
Major, Exeter,
4 May, 1663.
George Isack,
l)apt. St. Mary
Major, Exi-icr,
29 Nov., 1664.
Mary=
=Ann, da. of
Samuel Isack.
Samuel;
bapt. St. Mary Major, Exeter, 2C
1668 ; Chamberlain of the Ci
Exeter, 26 Feb., 1693 to 1729.
Samuel Isack,
of St. Mar-
garefs, West-
minster,gent.,
and late of
the City of
Exeter. Will
dat. 17 Dec,
1 74 1 ; Prov. 3
Aug., 1744-
(P.C.C, 194
Anstis.) . .
George I
Edward Cary,
of
Tor r
Abbe
V, born
1692;
bur. St
Mary
Major,
Exeter, 17
Dec,
1726.
LIZABETH,
bur. Ottery St. Mary,
15 July, 1622.
1 III
Paul Isack Margaret Katherine Judith
Anne,
Jane,
Mary,=John
r,
bapt.
bapt.
bapt. Ware
s
Ottery,
Ottery,
Ottery
t.
daughter=RiCHARD Maudit,
16 Apl.,
24 Mav,
29 Sep.'
.
of Fleet St., London, Esq.,
1603.
1605.
I6i2 ;
e,
4th son of Richard Maudit,
marr.
e
of Exeter, and his wife Mary,
da. of John Midwinter, Mayor
there
13 Apl.,
s,
of Exeter, 1540.
1631,
1
Elizabeth=William Bathurst,
child, mentioned of Finchcock,
! will of her grand- Goulherst, Kent.
:, Geo. Isack.
JoHAN,=joHN Harris
bapt. Ottery St. Mary,
2 Jan., 1607 ; marr.
there 10 Oct., 1632.
Richard Isack,:
apt. Ottery St. Mary, 18
eb., 1623 ; admitted a
ommoner of Exeter Coll.,
•xford, 1641 ; Member of
le Inner Temple, 1641 ;
illed to the Bar, 1650 ;
hamberlain of the City of
xeter, 25 Oct., 1653 ; and
own Clerk, 15 Dec, 1681 ;
ithor of Remarkable An-
quitics of the City of
xeter ; died within the
lose, Exeter, 13 March,
397 ; bur. Ottery St. Mary,
J March, 1697. Will dat.
3 March, 1697 ; Prov. 8
m., 1700 (P.R. Exeter.)
=Katherine,
JOHANE,
=NlCHOLAS
Ann,=
=*Benjamin
died within
bapt.
Channon,
bapt. St.
MOUNTNEY
the Close of
Ottery
of Ottery
Martin's,
the Cathedral
St.
St. Mary.
Exeter,
between 18
Mary,
— June,
Jan. and i
5 Dec,
1627.
March, 1697.
1625.
*[Mar. Lie. (Vicar General of Archbf>. of Canterbury) Nov. 30
1661 ; Benjamin Mounteney of i>t. Fosters in Foster Lane, Haber-
dasher, ■widower, about 46, a"d Atui Isaack of same, maiden, about
33, with consent of her Father Samuel Isaack, alleged by Robert
IVhitmg of St. Foster s, Gent., at St. Benefs, Paul's li-harf. Register
of St. Ben'et's, Pauls Wharf ( Harleian Society): "Marr. Dec. i,
1661, Benjamin Mounteney & Anne Isaack:' Kindly suHlied hy
Mr. O. A. R. Murray.]
5EBECCA Wilkinson,
marr. Exeter Cathe-
dral, 8 Feb., 1691.
Isack,
St.
Rebeckah,
bapt. St.
Paul's,
Exeter,
21 March,
1699.
Thomas Isack,
bapt. St. Mary
Major, Exeter,
3 June, 1680.
Elizabeth.
Richard Isack,
bapt. St. Paul's,
Exeter, 5 April,
1704.
Ann,:
marr. lie,
Exeter, 9
Jan., 1687.
=John Oxnam,
of St. Columb Major.
Isack of Ottery St. Mary
and the City of Exeter.
Ann,=John Rowe
only da. of Sparkwcll.
Compiled by A. J. P. Skinner.
10 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
Abstracts of Wills.
George Isacke, of Ottery St. Mary, Devon, gent. The '
day of [blattk] : The charge of my burial not to exceed ;^2o:
To the poor of Ottery St. Mary 40s. To the reparacon of the
church 205. and to provide books for the Library there 20s.
besides which I have already disbursed in the Perkins works :
To son George: To his wife: To my daughter Margaret:
To my son Samuel all my law books : and to his wife : and
to his son Richard {s towards his charge in learning: To
my son Paul : To all my daughters 20s. apiece and to every
of their eldest children los. apiece: To my grandchild Eliza-
beth Mauditt £5 : To Grace Gelly : I release to Roger
Pengelly her father ;^2o which I lent him : To my sister
Wakeman : To my cousin Anstice Beale : her daughter Ann
and her son George : To such of her children as shall inhabit
their mother's house after her death : To Mary Ware my
daughter : To Ellen Ware her mother-in-law : To Joan
Isack my daughter ;,f2oo and if she die before marriage to
be divided between her sisters Katherine, Judith and Mary:
daughter Joan : daughter Judith : daughter Mary : Residue
to my three daughters Judith, Joan and Mary and if it
exceed ^10 apiece I give the overplus not exceeding ;^io
apiece to my three daughters in London : children George
and Margaret Isack. The said Samuel Isack and Nicholas
Blampyn to be my Exor"-
Proved 20 August 1632 by Samuel Isaack : oath coram
Magro Will""- Shears, clico: power reserved to Nicholas
Blampyn. (P.C.C, 126 Audley).
Samuel Isacke of the Citie of Exeter, gent, 20 June,
1678 : past the limited age of pious King David : To the
poor of the Citie ;^2o: my oldest son Richard Isaack
all such benefit and profitt of all that tenement withe
ye appurnences in Tipton in the parish of Ottery St.
Mary, co. Devon, which I hold by the grant of S' James
Smith : alsoe all that parcell of garb, corne and grayne
there called Tipton Mowe, held of and from the
Dean and Canons of Wynsor : Kathren, my said son's
wife: sone-in-law Nicholas Chanon : daughter Ann Iszacke :
My s"* daughter Ann Mountney ;^io a year for life, etc:
son Samuel Izacke ^100 and certaine copyhold lands in
the Manor of Chard, co. Somerset : wife Elizabeth Isack
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. ii
sole ex*'^: worthy good friends Thomas Drue of Grange:
Edmund Walrond of Bovey : estate and term of years of
tenement in trinity parish now in possession of widow
Jewell shall be and remain unto my son Richard Izack
and his children :
(W.) Robt. Dennys, *Phill. Cogan, Samuell Austen.
Proved 9 March i68| by Elizabeth Izacke the widow.
(P.C.C. 34 Cottle. Also P.R. Exeter).
Elizabeth Izacke of the City of Exon, widow : 20
March, 1698 : To the poor of Chard £10. Samuel Izacke
my grandsonne and youngest sonne of my sonne Samuel
Izacke Doctor in Physic deceased all that messuage or
tenement with thappurtenances lying and being in the
village of ffluxton called by the name of ffrankes
Tenement now or late in possession of John Penny:
also all that my garden etc. lying and being in South-
ernhay within the walls of the city of Exon now in
possession of Henry Wootton : To Mary Izacke my grand
daughter : To Margarett Izacke my grand daughter : To my
daughter-in-law Mary Izacke widow of my son Samuel
Izacke : To grandsonne Robert Izacke residuary legatee and
sole executor : friends Mr. ffrancis Pengelly of the citty of
Exon, Apothecary and t Robert Bayly my cousen of Ottery
St. Mary gent, to be overseers.
(W.) Sarah Heller, John Denny, Robert Lincolne.
Proved 23 March 1701-2. (Court of the Archdeacon of
Exeter).
Seal — I Arms : A chevron charged with a crescent, between
three hulls' faces caboshed.
Richard Izack of ye City of Exon, esquire : 10 March
1697 : Messuage or Tenement and one farthing of customary
* Mairiage Licence, Exeter: 1666, July 17, Philbertus Cogan, of
Chard, and Elizabeth Isaacke, of the City of Exeter, widow.
From Chard Parish Church Registers —
1695. Philebert Cogan, gent., of the Towne, buried 4 July.
1698. Mrs. Elizabeth Cogan, widow, of the Towne, buried 25 October.
t Mar. Lie, Exeter. 1688, Oct. 9. Robert Bayly & ffrances Channon
of Ottery St. Mary. She was probably a daughter of Nicholas Channon
and Johan Isack.
I The arms appear to be those of Stowford, a branch of which family
was settled at Ottery St. Mary. Probably she was a daughter of Stowford,
and a widow of Croker, when she married Samue Isack.
12 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
land containing about fourteen acres of inheritance etc.
lying and being in Tipton within ye parish and manour of
Otiery St. Mary, co. Devon : parcell or portion of tithe of
garbe corn and grain called Tipton-Mow in the par. and
CO. aforesaid sometimes parcell of ye late dissolved Colledge
of Ottery St. Mary : Three children viz : Samuel, Thomas
and Elizabeth Izack : grandchildren Samuel Izack and John
Izack : son S.iinuel Izack exo'
(W.) Katherine Harris, Hannah Salter, Joseph Tuthill.
Memo' my daughter Ann Oxnam.
Proved 8 January 1700. (P.R. Bishop of Exeter).
Samuel Izacke late of the City of Exeter, now in the
parish of St. Margaret, Westminster, gentleman. To my
brother John Izacke : my sister Rebecca Izacke and my
brother Richard Izacke each £^0 : To my son Samuel
Izacke ^500 at 21 : To my wife Mary Izacke whom I make
ex" : A sum of money due to me in right of my former
wife Ann Izacke from George Cary of Torr Abbey
Esq"" brother of my said former wife : 'J'o Elizabeth Dennis
daughter of Mr. John Dennis of St. Margaret, Westminster :
Dated 17 Dec' 1741.
(W.) John Dennis, Frances Dennis.
Memo. To George Izacke and Ann Izacke my children
by my former wife.
Proved 3 August 1744 by Mary Izacke. (P.C.C. 194
Anstis).
Elizabeth Isaacke of Rill, Ottery St. Mary, co. Devon :
widdow : 10 Feby. 1617-8: Sons Richard, William, George;
daughter Elizabeth: daughter-in-law Joane: Grace Isaacke
daughter of William Isaacke my son : Catheren Isaacke :
ffrances Broking my kinswoman : all rest of my goods to
Thomas Bowdon whom I make whole and sole ex"'
(W.) Michael Bussell, Willm Isaacke, Edward Bowden.
Proved 18 flfeby, 1617. (Court of Archd. of Exeter).
Inventory ;^20 los.
I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. O. A. R.
Murray for the Abstracts of Wills proved P.C.C, and
for the entries from the Registers of St. Martin and St.
Mary Major.
A. J. P. Skinner.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 13
9. Bonds and Marriage Licenses. — In searching the
Marriage Licenses of the Diocese of Exeter published by
the late Colonel Vivian, I noticed that there are a number
of entries in which a bond of ;^2oo is mentioned. The
following is a typical example :
1610. May 14. Richard Todde of Selbye in Yorke
and Agnes Coxworthie alias Browne of Topsham.
Peter Weaver of Topisham aforesaid, and Robert
Dalton of Hull in Yorke bound in ;^2oo.
Can any reader of D. & C. N. S' Q. explain the reason for
the bond. An entry dated Nov. 21, 1610, mentions a bond of
";^ioo for the indemnity of the Lord Bishop." The following
entries also appear to call for some explanation : —
1610. May 26. A caveat not to grant a license of
marriage between William Bewes of Beaford, and
any woman, because the said Bewes is an old man
and near death.
1610. John Dennis of Lanceston in Co. Cornwall, gent.,
and Joanna Taylor of St. Stevens by Lanceston ;
Anthony Dennis of Lanceston and John Challis of
Exeter, grocer, paid 5/- in discharge. What did the
5/- paid discharge ? Marmora.
10. The Second Duke of Ormond and Devonshire. —
The Press has recently been discussing various invasions of
England, and has described how the French landed at
Teignmouth in 1690 and at Fishguard in 1797. I have been
prompted to call attention to an episode in the history of
Devon which has not often been described, and to ask if
any of your readers can give further information.
James Butler, the second Duke of Ormond, had been one
of the leading Jacobites during the last years of Queen Anne's
reign, and had reorganized the army, purging it of all faithful
Hanoverians. His plans, however, were immature, and the
Whigs were in office when Queen Anne died in August,
1714. The party in power were able to ensure the succession
of George L, and he strongly championed the cause of those
Hanoverian lords, who had given him the throne.
Parliament was dissolved in January, 1715, and the new
House which met on March 17, 171 5, proceeded at once to
the impeachment of Bolingbroke, Oxford and Ormond. In
14 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
August Ormond fled the country and took service with the
Pretender, having first made sure that Jacobite feeling was
strong in the West of England and having taken measures
— efficient as he thought — to secure the adhesion of Bristol
and Exeter.
In October, 1715, the Pretender organized an expedition
against England and collected some ships at St. Malo under
the command of Ormond. After two unsuccessful attempts
this expedition set sail, and Ormond is said to have landed
" somewhere near Plymouth."
My object in writing these short notes is to discuss the
evidence and to see if any correspondent of D. &•. C. N 6*. Q.
can tell us whether Ormond ever did actually land, and, if
so, where ; so that an episode in the history of Devonshire
may be chronicled in more accurate detail.
The well known histories of Devonshire make no mention
of Ormond's expedition, but Mr. Baring Gould in his "Little
Guide " to Devonshire says :" In 17 14 {sic) James Butler, Duke
of Ormond landed in Devon at the end of October at the
head of a few men . . . but the cautious men of Devon
waited to see which way 'the cat jumped,' and the Duke
disappointed and alarmed re-embarked. It is interesting to
note that a ballad relative to the attempt remains among
the people and is still sung."
Now "1714" must obviously be a misprint, as Ormond
had not then been impeached and on October 9, 1714, he
was actually named of the Privy Council of Ireland.
Professor A. W. Ward in the Dictionary of National
Biography {v'ln., 6^), sa.ys: "Ormond sailed for the neighbour-
hood of Plymouth . . . but on his arrival he was soon
convinced of the futility of this expedition and speedily sailed
back to France."
Lady Elliott Drake in The Family and Heirs of Sir Francis
Drake (ii., 199), says: "The scheme of some Devonshire
Jacobites to seize Plymouth was disconcerted and. although
the Duke of Ormond landed on the coast with a few officers,
they found no men to command and made haste to depart."
The various histories of the period, if they mention the
expedition at all, say that Ormond landed in Devonshire
somewhere near Plymouth. They all evidently draw their
description from " A Letter to Sir William Windham by
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 15
Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke," and some actually
repeat his description verbatim.
The paragraphs in Bolingbroke's letter which refer to the
subject are : — (i.) "... to this was added a general indi-
cation of the place he should come to, as near to Plymouth
as possible." (ii.) "... The gentlemen acquainted with
the country and perfectly well known to all our friends in
those parts were dispatched before that the people of
Devonshire and Somersetshire who were we concluded in
arms might be apprised of the signals which were to be
made from the ships and might be ready to receive the
Duke." (iii.) " He embarked . . . and went on to the
place appointed : he did more than his part. . . . one of
the gentlemen who had passed over before him . . . joined
him on the coast and assured him that there was not the least
room to expect a rising. In a word he was refused a night's
lodging in a country where the Duke had expected that
multitudes would repair to him. He returned to the coast
of Brittany, refitted his vessel and made a second attempt
but a storm cast him back on the French coast."
This account by Ormond's fellow Jacobite who was
impeached with him is, I believe, the only contemporary
account actually known ; but the ^hole letter is described
by Professor Ward as untrustworthy. Three points are to
be noticed : the writer does not actually say that the Duke
landed, he leaves it to be inferred ; he does not mention the
actual locality and he says the abortive attempt to sail
from St. Malo was after, not before, he actually crossed the
channel.
In the Hbrary of the Devon and Exeter Institution is
preserved a collection of i8th century newspapers which
were published in Exeter, and in them I have found several
notices which bear on this subject. They all occur in
The Protestant Mercury or the Exeter Post Boy, a paper
which was first published by Jos. Bliss on Sep. 16, 1715.
(i.) Nov. ist, 1715, No. XL: — "Dartmouth, Oct. 23. A large
ship putting into Brixham-Key this morning, our Customs
House officers went off with their boat to board her,
but were denied entrance. Some fishermen just come
in report her to be a French vessel full of suspected
Persons. A Man of War is just gone in chace of her."
i6 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
(2.) Nov. 4, 1715, No. XII.: — A repetition of the above verbatim.
(3.) Nov. II, 1715, No. XIV.: — "The London letter of Thursday,
Nov. 3 . . . There are certain advices from France that
the late D. of Ormond embark'd himself privately at
Cherburg, with a number of arms on board, and some
officers : and it is now agreed that he was in that ship
which was formerly mentioned to have put into Torbay,
and made the signal of firing 3 guns : but finding himself
disappointed there as well as at other places on the Western
Coast, where he expected to find encouragement to land,
he is returned to the coast of Normandy."
(4) Nov. 18, 1 715, No. XVI, page 3 : — There are advices from
France that the late D. of Ormond has not been heard
of since he sailed from that Coast in a ship with 5000
Arms for the West of England so that 'tis supposed
he is cast away." Page 5 : — " There are repeated Accounts
from France that the Betty Galley on Board which the late
Duke of Ormond embarked at Cherbourg in Normandy,
has been cast away."
These accounts state that the Duke endeavoured to land
at Brixham where William of Orange landed. They do
not say that he actually landed anywhere, though the
interval that elapsed before he returned to France would
have enabled him to try several other ports on the Devonshire
coast. It is interesting to note that he is always described
in these accounts as the late Duke — presumably because of
his attainder in England. I have endeavoured to bring fresh
contemporaneous evidence to bear on the point, but can find
no definite proof that he landed anywhere in Devonshire.
Did the Duke of Ormond land in Devonshire in October
or November, 1715— and If so where? If he did, this year
contains the bicentenary. F. W. Morton Palmer, f.s.a.
[This article was sent in for publication in the October,
1915, issue, but owing to pressure on our space we were,
much to our regret, compelled to hold it over. — Eds.]
II. Commander Kennicott (VIII., par. 169, p. 208). —
If A.R. would address the Secretary of the Admiralty,
Whitehall, London, officially for the information he seeks,
I feel almost assured he would secure the same. Failing
Admiralty ability to furnish the information required through
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 17
the present abnormal pressure of work, A.R. might have
recourse to the old official records now kept at the Record
Office, Chancery Lane, London, and search " Lieutenants'
Certificates of Service 1802-1848 " (Naval Board Passing
Certificates, No. 71). These books give in each case, place
of birth and age of the several officers mentioned, which being
ascertained might lead to the discovery of parentage through
the medium of the baptismal registers of the parish con-
cerned. L, Edye, Lieutenant-Colonel.
12. Devonshire (VIIL, p. 176, par. 149). — In modern
speech the words " shire " and ** county " are almost synon-
omous terms. Thus it is correct to say " Devonshire,"
" Devon County," or *' County of Devon," but the expression
" County of Devonshire " is as tautologic as calling a horse
a "four-footed quadruped."
Although by recent legislation the word " county " has
become the standard administrative term, there are certain
conventions due to local usage which seem to determine the
employment of "shire" either as a word or a terminal
syllable. In Wales (including Monmonth) and in Scotland
it is usual, but in Ireland it is never used. The last named
country has another peculiarity ; one always speaks there of
" County Cork " or " County Donegal," never of " the County
of Cork " or " County of Donegal."
The use of "shire" as a terminal syllable can be traced
as far back as the ninth century; thus in the Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle (Benet MS. of supposed date 891) we find two entries
relating to " Defenascir" (Wicganbeorge 851, and Healfdenes'
raid 878) Under 871 *' Hamtunscir " and " Bearrucscir " are
mentioned, and the former also under date 755. Several of
the Chronicle entries omit the termination and speak of
"Defenas" or "Defnas" which may mean either "the land
of Devon " or " the people of Devon."
A note appended to the chronicles of Simeon of Durham,
possibly added by a twelfth century transcriber {Works Ed.
Hinde, vol. i., p. 221) gives an account of the divisions of
England at some time previous to the Conquest, probably in
the reign of Edgar. It would appear that the kingdom then
consisted of three Teutonic provinces (Westsexenelaga, Merch-
enlaga, and Denelaga) and two Celtic provinces (Cumberland
i8 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
and Cornwall.) Excluding Cornwall, Monmouth (then in
Wales,) the five northern counties (all except Yorkshire) in
Cumberland, and Rutland (which at the Conquest was partly
in Notts and partly in Northants), we have thirty-two
divisions in the Teutonic area These are generically called
•• shires," but in seven out of the thirty-two, all representing
the small eastern kingdoms and sub-kingdoms, the terminal
syllable " shire " is not found. These seven are : — Kent,
Surrey, Sussex, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, and Suffolk It
would then seem that the original right to the suffix "shire"
belongs to twenty-five counties, of which six represent
Wessex as it was in the early years of Egbert's reign (802-
812), and nineteen the tenth-century sub-divisions of Mircia
and Danelagh, all these nineteen being unlike the earlier six,
called after their chief towns. Devonshire was a "shire" or
portion of the province of Wessex. Simeon (or his annotator)
gives a curious piece of information about Cornwall. " In
Cornwealas sunt sex parvae scirae." We hear of Triconshire,
Wellshire, Pydarshire, and (perhaps) Powdershire. Were
the other two shires Kerrier and Penwith? Cornwall in those
days was probably more densely peopled (owing to the influx
of British refugees) and therefore relatively more important
than any of the neighbouring divisions.
J. J. Alexander, M.A.
13. Mayoral Elections held in Churches — Can any
of your readers inform me whether the election of Mayors
took place at any time in the Churches of other Devon towns
than those of Plymouth and Totnes .'* Is there any instance
in Cornwall where such an official was similarly chosen ?
Ecc. Ant. Inq.
14. Mayoral Elections held in Churches. — With
regard to this query there is no proof that Mayors of Totnes
were ever elected in the Parish Church. It is true that in
the rolls of the guild Merchants of Totnes there are references
to the seats of the members, and Mr. Riley of the Historical
Manuscripts Commission thought the references were to seats
apportioned in the body of the Parish Church, and this may
have been so, as the Corporation repaired the Church (except
the chancel) and to a large extent had control of it. Toulmin
Smith, in his English Gilds says he finds no similar case.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 19
The idea of the Mayors being elected in the Church no doubt
arose from the fact that it was usual to attend service in the
Parish Church before the Mayoral election which was fol-
lowed by the Communion which was partaken of by them
who were that day to be elected to office, they obtaining a
certificate from the Vicar of having done so. as only members
of the Church of England could be elected to municpal office
and they proved their membership by the certificate. This
restriction was done away with by the Municipal Corporation
Act which came into operation in 1836. E. W.
15. Mayoral Elections held in Churches. — Mr.
Walter Johnson in his admirable book Byways in British
ArchiBoIogy, quoting Notes and Queries, loth ser., xii., p. 148,
states that the Mayors of Sandwich, Boston, Northampton
and Grantham were chosen in the Parish Church. I believe
other instances are on record, but I am unable at the
moment to recall them. There are also some letters on this
important point in Notes and Queries of November, 19 15.
Mr. S. O. Addy's Church and Manor should also be consulted.
%^ f ^h . H. Tapley-Soper.
16. Deans of St. Buryan: West Cornwall. — A
Collegiate Church is said to have been founded here in 930
A.D. In Domesday Book a reference is made to a College
of Canons here.
A.D. 1259 (July) Arnold, a piotonotary of Richard Earl
of Cornwall, admitted on the presentation of his
royal patron.
1269 Stephen Haym.
after 1272 WilHam de Hambledon (patron Edward I.)
1302 Ralph de Manton.
1316 John de Mauste or IMedenta (patron Isabella
Queen of Edward II.)
Matthew de Medentor.
1318 Matthew Boileaux.
John de Hale.
1350 Richard de Wolveston.
John Sancy.
1354 David Macquerd or Maynard.
1381 Allan de Stokes.
1394 John Boor.
ao Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
1395 Nicholas Slade.
1410 William Lockard.
1439 Adam Moleyns or Molyneux (Bishop of
Chichester 1445).
1446 Peter Stuckle.
1461 Robert Knollys.
1535 Dr. Thomas Bagh.
1590 John Gayer.
William Fairchild.
1603 Revd. Murray.
1637 Dr. Robert Creighton.
1645 Dr. John Weekes.
1662 Dr. Seth Ward, also Bishop of Exeter.
1667 Dr. Anthony Sparrow.
1677 Dr. Thomas Lamphigh.
i688 Dr. Sir Jonathan Trelawny ; who became Bishop
of Winchester 1707.
1717 John Harris.
1739 Arthur Ashley Sykes, D.D.
1746 The Hon. Dr. Nicholas Boscawen.
1793 Samuel Alford.
1799 Henry Jenkins, D.D.
1817 The Hon. and Rev. Fitzroy Henry Richard
Stanhope.
1864 The Deanery which comprised the parishes of
St. Buryan, St. Sennen, and St. Levan ceased
to exist and these parishes became separate
and independent rectories.
1866 Thomas Borlase Coulson, Hon. Canon of Exeter
Cathedral.
1882 Richard James Martyn, M.A., Hon. Canon of
Truro Cathedral.
1913 Arthur Cornish. M.A. Wm. Maxwell Batten.
17. " When Moss Caught his M.\re." — Can any reader
of D. &'C. N.S- Q. tell me where I can find a copy of an old
Devonshire song, the first line of the refrain of which is the
line quoted above. Madrigal.
18. "Clyst" and "Week" Place Names. — Can any
reader of D. &' C. N. &> Q. give the origin and meaning of
the above place names? ^^_^ /] .^. j __/ f,. R.J.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 21
19. Hunt Family in Devonshire (V,, p. 31, par. 20.) —
At the above reference information was sought as to the
ancestry of the Rev. Robert Hunt, who was the first minister
of the Church at Jamestown, Virginia, having landed in the
colony 13 May, 1607.
Though unable to give a direct answer, I hope that the
following notes may be of some assistance to the enquirer —
even at this late day, and to others interested in the family.
1518. Thomas Hunte witnesses a Grant, penult, die Aprilis,
A°- r.r. Henrici Septimi post Conq™, decimo [29 Apr.,
10 Hen. Vn.] (Exeter Corporation Records, No. 358.)
1517-1537. Tristram Risdon, in his Note Booh, names
Thomas Hunt as Mayor of Exeter in the 9th, 15th
and 29th years of Hen. VHI. He has been described
both as a " tailor " and a " baker." According to his
gravestone (" the oldest " in St. Petrock's Church) he
died 15 May, 1548.
For particulars of this Thomas, and of Robert
George and William, and other Hunts of this parish,
see Robert Dymond's History of St. Petrock's, Exeter,
PP- 33> 45> 53> 56, 57 ; and his Cal. of Deeds of St.
Petrock's, pp. 13, 16, 17, 30, 40.
1539. In the Exeter Receivers' Rolls, 30-31 Hen. VHL, I
have come upon the item : — " Paid to M'- Hunt for
the booke of Statuyts . . ."
1565. Among inventories of household goods of citizens of
this period, is that of the goods of " George Hunte
of Exeter." {Trans. Dev. Assn., xx.. Paper by Mr.
Wm. Cotton, pp. 73, 109.) It includes a bequest to
his son " Hannyball the childe." Cf. " Hannibal als.
George Hunt " in the Pedigree of Hunts of Exeter
and Chudleigh, in Vivian's Visitations of Devon, p. 494.
Hen. VIII., — Ed. VI. A Proceeding in the Court of
Augmentations is calendared as John Hunt v. Wm.
Parsloe, Zeal Monachorum, Devon.
1566-7. Thomas Hunt (? plaintiff), Exeter, marsh in parish
of St. Thomas Apostle, messuages, etc. (Record
Office, Cal. Chanc, Comm. Law PI., ref. to Bale. 6,
No. 72, A°- 9 Ehz.)
1566-7. The Queen disposes of divers quondam Chantry-
Lands, including a " Church House " in the parish
aa Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
of Faryngdon [co. not named] that had been given
for the maintenance of obits for the souls of the
ancestors of one Thomas Hunt. (Rot. Pat. 9 Eliz.,
Pt. 5. m. 3.)
1577. Christian Matthews, of Clyst St. George, Devon, in
her will makes bequests to James Hole, her brother-
in-law, and to Elizabeth Hunt of Clyst St. George.
(Ch. Worthy's Devon Wills.)
1588. John Hunt, Cleric, compounded for the first fruits
(Primitiis) of the rectory of Mawnan in Cornwall.
(Clerical Subsidies, Exon, ^Vt-)
1662. List of ministers silenced by the Act of Uniformity: —
Edward Hunt, Rector of Dunchideock, after depriva-
tion, lived near Exeter, later removed to South
Molton, where he died as minister of a dissenting
congregation.
1720, Apr. 7. The complainant in a Chancery-suit, Brian
Hunt, of the parish of St. Mary le Savoy, London,
states that his grandfather, Edward Hunt, of South
Molton, CO. Devon, clarke, having a very large
personal estate, including bonds, plate, and par-
ticularly large quantities of valuable books and MSS.,
made his will 4 Dec, 1694, ^^^ therein bequeathed
certain sums to the complainant, and the residue to
his son William Hunt, then a merchant living in
Barbadoes, who died there 22 Nov. 1714. {Ch. Pro.,
2534, Hunt V. Hunt.)
George Hunt of Bovey and of South Tawton. —
Among the Bishops' Transcripts of missing Parish
Registers in the Diocesan Registry at Exeter is a part of
one for North Bovey of the year 1634, '" which the sig-
nature appears of George Hunt, Church Warden.
In all probability this was a grandfather of the "George
Hunt of North Bovey, gent.," to whom in September, 1713,
John Weekes, Esq., sold the " capital messuage, barton,
etc., of Northweeke in South Tawton, Devon, together with
the contiguous tenements of Tarr Mill, Cater's Mill, Coates,
Ellis' Tenement and Blacklands [formerly known as Raab
Gard's* Tenem'] all in S. T. parish, and Fewing's Tenem' in
•See Cor. Rcgc Roll, No. 2019, m. 631, citing Indenture of 1676,
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 23
the parish of Sampford Courtenay" [which is perhaps
identifiable with the farm known as Pecketsford, another
name for which as early at least as 1678 was East Rowdens"^-] ,
in consideration of an annuity of double the yearly value of
the estate to be paid to the sd. J. W."
This John Weekes (who was of the intrusive Hatherleigh
line that had supplanted the rightful and ancient line of
Wykes of Northwyke since 1661) left no issue, but was
survived by three sisters — Martha, who married Robert
Hole (who through her acquired Cocktree in South Tawton) ;
Mary, who married Richard Risdon, of Spreyton ; and
Elizabeth, who married Tapper Langdon, of North Bovey,
in Aug., 1705, and was re-married (presumably before 1713)
to the aforesaid George Hunt.
A " case for counsel " t presented by the parishioners of
Sampford Courtnay, written after his death, referring to him
as " George Hunt, Esq., a Justice of the Peace, and a very
litigious man," complains of his having diverted the course
of the River Taw when he was Surveyor of the Highways,
using statute labour for the purpose. Among shards dug
up at Northwyke, some years ago, was the bottom of a
white china cup, lettered in blue, "... Hunt . . . L. C,"
and a piece of a thick black glass bottle with the words
stamped on the glass medallion or " seal," " Geo. Hunt,
1730." Several local traditional stories connect George Hunt
and his daughters with Northwyke as their residence.
In 1726, Sept. 29, Christopher Gale, of Bovey Tracy
Parke, Esq., sold to George Hunt, of North Weeke, gent.,
all that capital messuage, barton, etc., called Parke alias
Bovey Tracy Park, and all those enclosed lands called " The
Park," being parcel of the possessions and lands hitherto
called Richmond's Lands,| late in the possession of
* See Church Rate in Parish Ch. S, C, 1678, and cf. Fines, Devon,
9 Jas. I., Mich°>s (at P. R. O., London.)
fMS. penes Sir Roper Lethbridge.
J Tlie brothers Lysons state that Margaret, Countess of Richmond,
had a grant of the manor of Bovey Tracy in 1487, and that more latterly
it belonged to John Langdon, Esq., who resided at Parke in this parish.
Sir John Stowell, Kt., is described as "of Parke in Bovey Tracy" in
Exchequer Depositions of 1666. (See my paper on Freemans of Ash-
burton, Biickfastleigh, Bovey Tracy and Heathfield, etc., in Trans. Dcv.
Assn., 1913.)
24 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
Christopher Gale, and other Closes, etc. (Close Rolls,
14 Geo. I., 4th Part, No. 21.)
George Hunt, wlio styles himself " of Northwick, Esq.,''
in his will signed 31 Oct., 1766 (proved 19 Jan., 1768), leaves
all his freehold lands and tenem" in the parishes of North
Bovey and Throwleigh, immediately upon his own decease,
to " my grandson George Luxton, son of Thomas Luxton and
Elizabeth his wife, my daughter, of Winkleigh, Esq.," with
remainders to " my granddaughter Elizabeth Luxton, sister
of the said G. L.," and '• my granddaughter Mary Luxton,
younger sister of the said G. L." He leaves Tarr Mill in
S. T., immediately after his decease, to ♦' my grandson
George Hunt Clapp, son of Robert Clapp and Mary his
wife, my youngest daughter, of Ottery St. Mary, gent.,"
with remainders to " my grandson Francis Hunt Clapp,"
and others.
All the rest of his messuages, lands, etc., including North
Wyke (though not named) he leaves to " my daughter
Elizabeth Luxton " and " my daughter Mary Clapp," stipu-
lating that they are to yield up their respective moieties to
the sd. George Luxton and the sd. George Hunt when they
shall have attained the age of 24 years.
In a "case for counsel," dated 27 Apr., 1774, it is stated
that " Northweek " had been mortgaged by Hunt to one
Mr. Marwood and leased to Robert Clapp for a term of 14
years. It is further stated that Hunt's son-in-law, Thomas
Luxton, " died about six months ago," and complaint is
made that though George Luxton has attained the age of
24, and has been allowed by his mother Elizabeth to live
in part of Northweek House and to receive part of the
rents, she has made no surrender to him of the estate.
Besides the daughters Elizabeth and Mary, George Hunt
would seem to have had a son, named after himself, who
predeceased him ; for in one of the Manor-Court Books of
Bovey Tracy (preserved in a safe at the Rectory) I note
under the date Oct. 22, 1748, the item: — "Wee p'sent the
death of the Rev. Mr. George Hunt; and his two brothers-
in-law to be taken tenants in his room " ; and in a Court
of 1749, "Tenants presented to be admitted: . . . Mr. Clapp
and Mr. Luxon for Park and Five Weeches (Wey) late Rev.
Mr. Hunt's." Again, in a Court of 1751 : — Among tenants
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 25
presented now and at former Courts, and not yet admitted :
'• Mr. Robert Clapp for Park and Five Weeches," who has
not had proper notice from the Reeves to attend at this
Court.
In deeds dated 1781 and later George Hunt Clapp is
described as " of the Middle Temple, London, Esq."
One of 1785 yields the information that by that date
Elizabeth and Mary (the co-heiresses of G. H.) had both —
and in that order — died, widows ; and that North Week and
its accompanying tenements had been " lately " parted and
divided between George Luxton and George Hunt Clapp,
who now combine with Robert Lydston Newcombe, of St.
David's parish, Exeter, in leasing both moieties for a year
to William Branscombe, of Exeter, gentleman, "to the intent
that he may be enabled to take a grant & release for certain
uses."
By another deed, dated 27 Sept., 1786, the sd. G. H. C.
sells his moiety (The Western, " Lot H.") to " Andrew
Arnold, of North Tawton, gentleman," who in 1781, under
the description " yeoman," had become his tenant of that
moiety, in succession to one Thomas Lethbridge, the former
tenant of both moieties.
George Hunt Clapp (styled " Councillor Clapp," and
" Barrister at Law " in some of the later documents) by
his will, dated 11 June, i8ig, left Tarr Mill to his niece
Frances Clapp, the daughter of his brother Francis, who is
referred to in an Indenture of 1824 as " the late Rev. Francis
Hunt Clapp," and was Vicar of Ottery St. Mary ; but by
a codicil added 21 Sept., 1820, he revoked the above bequest
and disposed of Tarr Mill to his wife in trust — first for the
repayment to Dr. Malachi Blake, m.d., of Taunton, Somerset,
of the mortgage money due on it, and after that, on trust,
for the use of his " dearest niece Catherine Little " [of
Bovey Tracy.]
The brothers Lysons tell us that " Park is now (? 1822)
the property of Charles Clapp, Esq., Barrister of Law."
In the parish church of Bovey Tracy, on the south wall
immediately above the chancel screen, is a tablet — " Sacred
to the memory of George Hunt Clapp, Esq., of Park, in this
parish. Barrister, a Member of the Honble. Middle Temple
Society, who departed this life the 23d of Jany., 1824,
26 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
aged 63 ..." A long eulogistic epitaph closes with the
words : — " This humble memorial is a tribute of affection
and respect from his bereaved widow, who died Sep. 22,
185 [? I or 4] , aged 89, and was buried at Hammersmith."
In the lower part of the same monument is a medallion
on which are painted — Ermine, three batiU-axes sable (the arms
of Wykes of North Wyke).
Burke, among several diflferent Hunt armorial bearings,
gives: — "Hunt, per cross, or and sable, a cross lozengy counter-
cJuxnged."
In Bovey Tracy Church there is a leger-stone near the
pulpit cut with a cross of lozenges which might perhaps
suggest this Hunt coat, but it is, in fact, a tomb of a
Stawell, to which family other heraldic memorials appear
on some carved and tinctured medallions* that once formed
part of an elaborate Stawell monument which used to stand
at the east end of the south aisle. t
The George Hunts of Bovey may perhaps have been
descendants of the George Hunt of Exeter, to whom I have
referred ante.
Burke gives: — Hunt of Exeter and Chudleigh, co. Devon,
traced in the Visitation of 1620 to the year 1500, Azure, on
a bend between two water bougets or, three leopards' faces gules;
crest, on a mount vert, against a halbert erect in pale gu. headed
at., a Talbot sejant or, collared and tied to the halbert of the
second.
I desire to express my sincere thanks to the Rev. H.
Goldney-Baker, who in 1908, while Curate-in-charge of
Bovey Tracy, sent me full particulars of the Hunt monu-
ment and other memorials in the church ; to H. E. Bentinck,
Esq., of Indiho, Bovey Tracy (who informs me that his father
bought the manor from the Earls of Devon about 1856), for
permission to examine the manorial records in the care of
the Vicar; and finally to the Vicar himself, the Rev. H.
•These medallions, after the "restoration" of the church, were
thrown into the churchyard, whence they were rescued and set up in
their present position (over a tablet with a Stawell epitaph), on the
south wall, by Mr, Bentinck, father of the present owner of Indiho in
this parish.
t As seen and described in 1847 by Davidson in his Church Notes,
South 0/ Devon (pp. 185, 193) in the Brooking-Rowe Collection in Exeter
City Library.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 27
B. Hyde, m.a., who has very kindly shewn me these and
other parochial and local documents of interest.
I am indebted to Mrs. Hole, now of " Parke View," for
the information that early in the nineteenth century the estate
of " Parke " in Bovey Tracy was acquired by purchase by
Mr. Robert Hole, of Stickweek (born 1742), whose son,
Mr. William Hole (born 1799) had resided but a short time
in the old house when it was suddenly discovered to be
unsafe, and he therefore pulled it down and built the present
house in or shortly before 1825, and lived and died there.
He was succeeded by his son, Mr. William Robert Hole
(the late husband of my informant), whose son, Mr. William
Gerard Hole, is the present ov^Tier.
The modern building stands a little farther back than its
predecessor, but is approached through the same fine avenue
of beeches. The oak flooring of its hall was brought from
Crownley, another old family place. It would seem probable
that the Hole family of Parke were connected with that of
Hole of North Tawton (into which the sister-in-law of
George Hunt of Parke married).
From sketches made by a sister of Mr. William Hole
of the old mansion of Parke (supposed to have been built
in the fourteenth century) shortly before its demolition, it
appears to have been a large, irregular place, comprising
a two and a half story gabled main block, with three or
more wings, having one large entrance-door reached by a
flight of half-a-dozen stone steps in the outer court, and
another entrance in an inner court divided off from the
other by high walls, with a tall narrow gate-house in one
corner. This gate-house had an arched and mullioned
window above a very wide, oak, nail-studded door pierced
by a wicket, stone seats running along the internal side-
walls and the date 1620 cut in its pavement. All the doors
referred to were "like church-doors," and had pointed heads
of the form known as a chevron in heraldry.
^..^^ (>' '59' • Ethel Lega-Weekes.
20. Williams Family of Falmouth. — Biographical
information is wanted regarding Theophilus Richard
Williams, son of John WilUams and his wife Margaret nee
Daubuz, who was born in Falmouth in 1751, lived there all
28 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
his life and died there in 1835. Was he ever married, and
where was he buried ? He is said to have had two sisters —
Susannah Judith Wilhams, who died in infancy, and Ann
Christiana Williams, who was born in Falmouth in 1756 and
died unmarried there in iSio. There may be still some
members of this family who would not refuse to give accurate
information, and any information will be welcomed by
F. de M. I.arpent.
21. Some Studies in the Topography of the
Cathedral Close. — Correction, p. 145, line 20 : The sup-
porters of Queen Elizabeth were the lion and wyvem. The
wyvern and the dragon often get confused ; the first may be
easily identified by having only two legs, whereas the dragon
has four. Queen Elizabeth's supporters were a lion and
(red) dragon segreant. On same page and paragraph there
is stated to be a shield of RoUe impaling a coat of six quart-
erings, with a probability that it belonged to a wife of George
Rolle, but without blazons. Cannot a photograph, rough
sketch, or verbal blazons be made of this, so that the family
might be identified and the pedigree proved ? F. W.
22. Courtenay and Champernown Families. — The
following from Notes attd Queries, 9th ser., Vol. IV., p. 212,
re local families, appears to the Editors to be of sufficient
interest to warrant reproduction.
Courtenay. A remarkable error appears on a brass (in
the church of Lanteglos by Fowey (Cornwall) which records
the marriage of William Mohun with Frances Courtenay
instead of her sister Isabel (see Inq. P.M., 4 & 5 Ph. & M.,
part 2, No. 4). These were two of four sisters, great-aunts
and co-heiresses of Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devon, the
suitor of Queen Elizabeth when Princess.
Champernown, Umherleigh. In the important Inq. P.M. 30,
Edw. I., No. 20 (see Roberts' Cal. Getual. ii., 6207) we find
Oliver de Champernown set down as heir of Emma de
Soligny. His daughter and heiress, who was always styled
" the lady Joan Champernown " granted lands for the
celebration of masses in her chapel at Umberleigh for the
souls of William de Arnulphi (Champernown), her father,
and Eva, her mother, and Ralph de Wilington,. late her
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 29
husband (Risdon, p. 316. Peter le Neve MSS. penes me:
Pole, Devon, 302-422). Probably the jury were thinking of
the great man Oliver de Dinham, who shared with the
Champernowns the lands of their cousin, Isolda de Cardinan,
the hermit heiress {Hundred Roll, i. 57).
H. H. Drake.
23. A Shillingford Story. — A local tradition is pre-
served at Shillingford St. George which ought to be printed
while still remembered. It was told me by the Rector, the
Revd. S. H. Atkins. There is at Shillingford, just below the
church, an old fashioned house, formerly the Anchor Inn.
Here all the coaches stopped on their way westward to have
an extra horse attached to the team before ascending the very
steep hill beyond the village. When George the Third paid
his visit to Exeter in 1789 he left the city for Saltram, near
Plymouth. The road through Shillingford was in those days
the main road westwards, and as the Royal coach was bound
to stop for horses at the Anchor Inn, the villagers determined
to offer a loyal address to his Majesty. This address was
poetical, but only the concluding lines have been preserved :
" Us be men
Of Exminster, Shillingford and Kenn,
And us hopes your Majesty will not be mazed agen " (again).
*• What, what, what, what's mazed ? " enquired the King.
Some diplomatic courtier explained that the loyal villagers
hoped his Majesty would remain in good health. After which
the coach rolled on. ^ r\ nn . Beatrix F. Cresswell.
24. Devon Place and Field Names. — I shall be glad
for any suggestions as to the meanings of any of the following
place or field names in the parish of Kentisbeare: — France,
Wressing, Guddiford (Goodford?) Bunkasland (a.d. 1815),
Horn, Styelands, Holland Close, Great Ball, Pinn Close
{c. 1 815), Nibley, Scrip Gard, Headon, Little Rag, Three
Christones or Three Christians (about 30 acres). Hanger,
Gillon, Gratton, Culver Hill, Catchere, Bew Beer, Calland,
Tucketts, Honeymead, Ruins Well, Elford Lang, Great
Weather Lang, Whip Hill, Nodbeer, Miggle Hill, Gearis,
Sherwoods, (a boundary field with coverts near). Beer Cand,
Deers Meadow, Pixey Mead, Pixey Pool (2 miles apart),
30 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
Catshayes, Long Wade, Alson Rew, J. B. Chaplin, Rue Tins,
Buller Tree, Holmeads, Shorland. Can a "Lawn" or other
glebes be connected with " Llan " as suggested ? I have
walked over nearly all the land but have not been greatly
enlightened : it is a case for a comparison of names in different
parishes. E. S. Chalk.
25. West Country Clock and Watch Makers (VIL,
p. 242, par. 169; VIIL, p. 16, pars. 14, 15, 16; p. 141,
par. 125; p. 204, par. 166). — Your article on "Grandfather"
Clocks in D-ar-C. N.&'Q. of July is very interesting.
Amongst the names of makers I do not observe that of Peter
Waycott, of Holne, Ashburton, Staverton and Totnes. There
are many of his clocks in Devon to-day and some of his son
Robert of Pai^^mton and Torquay. Peter lived at Ashburton
in 1799 and made clocks, then, or soon after. He had a
machine for cutting the wheels. He was a ''jack of all
trades," so made the clock cases, the works and painted the
dials. His son Robert continued to manufacture until the
forties, when these tall clocks appear to have been eclipsed by
the Dutch or American article. Peter had two brothers,
William and Richard, who sailed from Dartmouth somewhere
about the year of Waterloo. They went to Nova Scotia and
made clocks there, many of which are to be found to-day.
John Francis.
26. West Country Clock and Watch Makers (VH.,
p. 242, par. 169; VHL, p. 16, pars. 14, 15, 16; p. 141*
par. 125; p. 204, par. 166.) — We have a long case clock
made by James Treverton, Plymouth.
Frank L. Rawlins.
27. West Country Clock and Watch Makers (VIL,
p. 242, par. 169; VHL, p. 16, pars. 14, 15, 16; p. 141,
par. 125; p. 204, par. 166.) — Martin Dunsford, of Ash-
burton, was a maker of long case clocks, and also of a clock
with a very large face. Several of the latter are still in use.
He was living in 17S7. J. S. A.
28. West Country Clock and Watch Makers (VH.,
p. 242. par. 169; VHL, p. 16. par, 14, 15, 16; p. 141, par.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 31
125; p. 204., par. 166). — Mr. Tapley-Soper in his interesting
notes on West Country Clock and Watch Makers saddles
" Devon " with the blame for losing Lovelace's marvellous
clock. Seeing that Lovelace was an Exeter man and that
the clock was, from the time of its making to the date of its
removal to Liverpool, in Exeter almost begging for a home,
ought not the stigma be credited to the City's account ?
County.
29. Piper Family.— I give a transcript of a 17th century
document which recently came under my notice, as it may
interest some members of the Piper Family. Colonel Sir
Hugh Piper was, I believe. Governor of Exeter, Plympton,
and Launceston Castles.
" These are to certifie all whome it may concerne that
the bearer heer of Christopher Mischell was a Souldier in the
Right Hono^^'- the Earle of Bathe [s] company under my
command, and was pent att Tangeire and there received a
wounde in his thigh in his Maj"- service which hath much
disabled him of getting his Livelihood by his worke.
Given under my hand and seale att his Maj'=- Royall
Cittadle of Plymouth this 30"^ day of June Anno Domini
1673."
[Signei^ Hugh Piper.
Burke gives argent a cJiev. betwn. three magpies for Piper.
The impression of the seal on this document does not
indicate the tinctures. The three birds indicated have long
beaks and more nearly resemble snipe or shovellers than
magpies.
H. Tapley-Soper.
30. Savery Memorials. — According to Davidson's MS.
Notes on Devon Churches now in the Exeter City Library,
there was in 1831, on the Chancel floor of Moretonhampstead
Church a stone inscribed " Here heth the body of Christopher
sone of Christopher Savery of Shilston who was buried March
24, 1632." The arms are stated to be defaced.
Curiosus II.
32 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
31. 1665 County Assizes held at Barnstaple. — It has
been stated that the Devon Assizes in 1665 were held at
Barnstaple because of the plague which was then raging in
Exeter. Can any reader confirm or refute this statement ?
32. "The Family and Heirs of Sir Francis Drake,"
by Lady Elliott Drake, 2 vols. (London : Elder &. Co.,
191 1), is a book well worth perusal. Unlike many so-called
" family histories," the object of which appears to be to
glorify the family at the expense of truth, these volumes
read like the work of an impartial outsider using members
of the Drake family as pegs on which to display the political
and economic history of the West country from the time of
Queen Elizabeth to that of George IIL The display is
very well set up and the reader's interest is never allowed
to flag.
Sir Francis Drake, the founder of the family, was a really
great man, with whom none of those after-mentioned can be
compared, though most of them were among the best repre-
sentatives of the times in which they lived. But Lady Drake
is not led away by that fact to give to Sir Francis a lineage
among the gods. His father, she tells us, was Edmund
Drake, rector of Alpchurch, who most probably came of a
yeoman stock settled in the neighbourhood of Tavistock. She
regrets that pedigree-makers do not distinguish, as they ought
to do, between descents which are proven and descents which
are conjectural. In Sir Francis' case the descent cannot be
proved beyond his father. The social and political life of
Devon is brightly and interestingly sketched, and Lady Drake
is rarely caught tripping. One little remark in a note on
p. 346 calls for correction. Sir Francis' forces are said in a
contemporary account to have fallen on the enemies' quarter
at " Burrington near the Tamar." Lady Drake says in a
note, " Burrington is in the north of Devon, . . . There
is no such place in or near the Tamar ? " The ordnance
map, however, tells a different tale. The contemporary
scribe was quite correct. There is a Burrington in Weston
Peveral, alias Pennycross tithing, some two miles from the
Tamar ; and this Burrington is the place referred to.
Oswald J. Reichel.
Specimen of Liturgical MS. discovered in
Exeter Cathedral Library, in 1915.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 33
33. Ancient Liturgical MS. discovered in Exeter
Cathedral Library. — The Rev. R. W. B. Langhorne, Sub-
Librarian of the Cathedral Library, whose contents he has
been cataloguing, is to be congratulated on his discovery of
some remains of a very ancient Liturgical Manuscript,
which had been ruthlessly cut up and utilised for lining the
backs of the Works of Galen.
This set of books was printed in Venice in 1541, but
may well have been bound or re-bound in Exeter, where,
if any defective or obsolete MSS. had been discarded from
the Library at the Reformation, such might have found
their way into the binder's hands.
On recognising the exceptional nature of the fragments,
the idea at once struck Mr. Langhorne that they might
possibly represent the long " missing " o?ie'-^^ of the two plenary
Missals, " ii fulle maesse bee," which were given to this
Cathedral by Leofric, its first Bishop (1050-1072) ; and,
hastily comparing them with the printed transcriptf of the
one which was made over in 1602 to the Bodleian Library
(where it remains as No. 579), he found that certain portions
of them corresponded, in the main, to the Collect for the
Ninth Hour of Christmas Eve,X and the Ad Complendnm and
Super Populum for the Wednesday after the third Sunday
in Lent,§ as set forth in that work, while others proved
to be passages from Matt, xv., and 2 Cor. xii.ll But not
having, for the present, leisure to pursue such investigations
farther, Mr. Langhorne has kindly delegated to me both
this task and the honour of introducing his trouvaille to
students in general.
There are eighteen fragments in all, eight being strips
about 12 inches by 2 inches or 4 inches (two horizontal, the
others vertical), and the rest mere scraps. The complete
pages must have been 16 or 17 inches square, which is
considerably larger than any of the Liturgical MSS. described
by Warren or Wilson. The (virtual) equality of width
with height is an early characteristic, as is the arrangement
of the text in three columns, two being more usual after
* Warren has demonstrated, p. xxix, that this is not the MS., once
Burscough's, now Harl. 2961.
t The Leofric Missal, Rev. F. E. Warren, B.D., F.S.A., 1883.
X Piece I, cf. Warren, p, 62. § Piece 5, cf. Warren, p. 83. || Piece 5.
D
34 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
the sixth century, though a "late instance" of three is noted
in the ninth century.'^ The frequent attachment of a short
word or two to a following longer word is another early trait
that persisted through the ninth and tenth centuries.!
The bulk of the text is in the hand known as the Carlo-
vingian Minuscule, interspersed with a few quasi-uncial forms,
and without any signs of English or Irish influence. The
ink is brown. There are no rubrications, but on piece 6
(in which I have combined four fragments) a large initial
" I " is ornamented with interlaced strapwork and dragons'
heads, verv smiilarly to a " T " on fol. 6i verso of the Bodleian
" Leofric, " and the headings or titles are imitative of Roman
rustics and uncials, and are heavily written in black with
a metallic (? silver) sheen.
The MS. was doubtless executed in some Continental
Scriptorium indebted to the School of St. Martin of Tours
for its calligraphical models, and I should be inclined to
assign it to c. 875, but Sir E Maunde Thompson himself
(pp. 258, 262) confesses to a difficulty in distinguishing
between MSS. of the ninth and tenth centuries.
The " Leofric Missal " now at the Bodleian is a composite
volume, of which part "A "-a Sacramentary — was, in
Warren's opinion, written in the first half of the tenth
centuryj in a Lotharingian Benedictine Abbey, probably
at Arras; and he conjectures it to have been brought to
England in 1042 by Leofric, who had been educated in
Lotharingia.§ Though evidently not penned by the same
scribe, I know no reason why the MS. now under discussion
might not also possibly have been brought hither by Leofric.
It may be interesting to compare the photograph, kindly
given me by the Rev. F. E. Warren, of a page of " Leofric A "
with that of a portion of the MS. discovered by Mr.
Langhorne.
• Vuie Sir E. Maunde Thompson's Handbook of Greek and Latin
Palcrofiraf>hy, p. 64.
t E.g., in piece I, cxoratus ; 2, dcmedio ; 5, nonloquatur, ctnoiipec
. . . ; 6, quiscininat, etcuncalcatus . . . ; 6d, cli>ivolue.
J Mr. Falconer Madan. Librarian of the Bodleian, and Mr. H. H. E.
Crastcr, Sub-Librarian, agree with Mr. Wan en's dating, which has
been adopted in the Summary Catalogue of the Western MSS. at the
Bodleian (in progress).
§ See Warren, pp. xxxi.x. (and do. note i), xl. and hv.
^
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(tt.- uomnnx ciu^it*' p luc- ami cnclo afgtmr-
c^nim aci luui^in Ho p no frti uc-rc-z^rtt-J
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Specimen of Leofric A. (Bodleian Library.)
68S617
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 35
I have identified and collated twenty-four of the (defective)
Prayers, Collects, etc., and Lections, in the latter MS.,
with Sacramentarial and with Biblical (Vulgate) texts, and
have noted in nearly all cases variations in spelling, and
omissions, interpolations or inversions of words.''^ Some
portions of the liturgical matter are (like the majority of
forms in " Leofric A ") of " Gregorian," others of " Gelasian "
derivation ; others, again, that I fail to trace in Warren's
work on the " Leofric Missal," or in H. A. Wilson's edition
of the earliest extant text of the " Gelasian Sacramentary "
(Vatican MS. " Regina, No. 316" [early eighth cent.] ), I
find in the Missale Ad Usum Savum, as edited by F. H.
Dickinson ; but there remain yet others that I am unable
to discover in either of these books ; possibly they may be
Galilean survivals. The inference seems justifiable that the
MS. whose remains are now in the Exeter Chapter Library,
was a rescension from a common, and therefore very early,
source or sources ; and it is to be hoped that it may throw
some fresh light on the disputed origin of the Sarum Missal.f
I may add that the variety of matter contained in these
Exeter fragments shews them to represent a more or less
Plenary Missal, and not merely a Sacramentary, nor merely
a Lectionary. According to certain authorities,! such Missals
(replacing sets of separate books for the performance of Mass)
began to come into existence c. goo a.d. ; but even by the
eleventh or twelfth century, the majority (including the
Bodleian Leofric) " have only an imperfect claim to be
regarded as ' Missalia Plena.' "
Analysis of the MS. brings out many further points of
extreme interest for Liturgists, for the discussion of which
I have not here space at command.
Ethel Lega-Weekes.
34. Ancient Devon Manuscripts. — On p. 23 of the
Letters and Papers of John Shillingford, Mayor of Exeter,
*I have not succeeded in identifying any of the Lections with those
in Grandissons " Legenda de Usu Exoniensis " (D. and C, MS., No. 3504),
but most of them answer to those in the Sarmn Missal for the same days
or seasons.
t See Henry Bradshaw Sac, Vol. XII., pp. 1419, 1421, 1423.
J See Catholic Did., Encycl. Brit., Prayer Book Did., sub verbis
Missal, Liturgy, and Use, and F. E. Brightman, The English Rile, p. vii.
36 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
1447-50, edited by Stuart A. Moore and published by the
Camden Society in 1871, appears the following note by the
Editor : " I am indebted to Mr. Nichols for a note of a
MS. sold by Kerslake, at Bristol, in 1862, written possibly
by the father or some other relative of our author. The
title of it is as follows : —
Kerslake's Catalogue, Bristol, 1862.
3511. Ancient Devon Manuscript: — A thick volume
written by John Shillyngford, Rector of Shillingford to
1392, and Rector of Ugborough, and canon of Exeter,
4to., in the original wood covers, with most of the deer-
skin covering remaining.
Contains, i. Memoriale Presbyterorum Parochialum
(Instructions for Confessing Persons of the different
callings and ranks of life ; the various penances for
every sin ; Forms of Absolution and Restitution ;
with Resolutions of Cases, &c., as practised by the
Parish Clergy in the Ancient Church of England).
2. A vellum leaf with List of Saints, »S:c. : — " v"*
Jd' februarij ob. dn's Joh'es Fowler : " " Aue regina
celor." A Hymn with Music.
3. Extracts from various authors, also Latin
Rhymes.
4. Here bigynnyith ye lamentacoun of our ladye
seynt marye. A tract in English.
5. Many other pieces. Rhymes. " a prest . . .
cunsel of Schrifte . . . he ne oght it for to telle,"
& others in English and Latin.
6. Viridarium super octo Psalmos, & Exposition
of the Creed.
•' Anno dni mill'o ccc" Nonogesimo. t'tio. in festo
sti michael magister Johes Shillyngford Doctor in iure."
Can any reader inform me who now possesses this
manuscript ? H. Tapley-Soper.
35. Church Sittings. — Can anyone enlighten me as to
the period when sittings were first introduced into our
Churches ? In early times it was considered, I believe,
irreverent to worship otherwise than in a kneeling or standing
posture, and in many Continental Cathedrals no seats or
pews are seen at the present day. Fred. Day.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 37
36. Edward Drew's Sword (VII., p. 86, par. 61 ; p, 115,
par. 91). — Whatever the mystery respecting the fate of
Edward Drew, the disposal of his sword is recorded as
foilows, in the Act Book of the Chamber of Exeter for the
period 3 Oct., 161 1 to i Ap., 1634, No. H. H. i. 7., under
" ffynes & escheates," folio 14 and date ix. June Ao Jac X" : —
*• And they agree whereas a swoorde of Edward Drewe
gen. did belonge unto the citty by meanes that the saide
Edwarde did slai & kill Willm. Peter gent, this howse
doth geeve & bestowe the said sword unto Mr. Recorder
also the same belongeth unto them as felons goodes."
(Mayor's Court Act Book). W. U. Reynell-Upham.
37. Ayer of Fen Ottery. — A continuation of " Ayer
of Wotton" (Vivian's Visitations of Devon, p. 31: —
John Marshall, of Fen Ottery, bur. there 10 March, 1671 ;
will dat. 3 Apl., 1671, prov. 11 Oct., 1672, Court of the
Archdeacon of Exeter (son of John Marshall, of Teign-
Grace, and his wife Agnes, da. of Walter Ossingold, of
East Ogwell) marr. at Fen Ottery, 6 March, 1640,
Grace, 3rd da. of George Stoford, of Ottery St. Mary,
where she was bapt. 25 Apl., 1603, bur. at Fen Ottery
2 June, 1668. They had issue a daughter —
Cicill Marshall, bur. Fen Ottery 20 May, 1698 ; marr. at
Fen Ottery 28 Sept., 1654, John Ayer, bapt. at
Atherington, Dec, 1615, bur. Fen Ottery 16 Aug.,
1683 (son of Baltazar Ayer, of Wotton in Athering-
ton, and his first wife Grace, da. of Francis Whiddon,
of Chagford, marr. at Chagford 13 May, 161 1 ; she
was bur. at Atherington, March, 1624.) Baltazar
Ayer marr. second {Marr. Lie, Exeter), 6 July, 1625,
Mary Slowly, of Highbickington, by whom he had a
son Arthur, bapt. at Atherington, Feb., 1629. Baltazar
Ayer was bur. at Atherington, 10 May, 1660, and his
widow Mary was bur. there 4 July, 1669. John and
Cicill Ayer had a son —
Marshall Ayer, of Fen Ottery Court, died 15, bur. 22
Aug., 1708, at Fen Ottery, M.I. Will dated 2 Aug.,
1708, proved 4 Feb., 1708-9, Court of the Archdeacon
of Exeter. He married first, at Lympstone, i Nov.,
1677, Dorothy, daughter of Mr. Phillip Cooke; she
38 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
was buried at Fen Ottery, i6 Sept., 1703. Second,
at Fen Ottery. 12 June, 1704, Mrs. Mary Isaac,
widow, {Marriage Licence, Exeter, 30 Oct., 1677,
Samuel Isaack, Doctor of Medicine, and Mary Duke.)
She was probably a daughter of Robert Duke, of
Ottery St. Mary. (Dr. Samuel Isaacke and Mary
his wife had children baptized at Ottery St. Mary-
Elizabeth, 30 Oct., 1684; EHz»- 25 May, 1686;
Margaret, 17 May, 1689.) ^J ^^^ first wife Dorothy
he had issue —
1. Arthur Ayer, bapt. Fen Ottery, 18 Dec, 1678, bur. there
13 June, 1685.
2. John Ayer, bapt. Fen Ottery, 7 Oct., 1681, bur. there
16 Aug., 1683.
3. Dorothy Ayer, bapt. Fen Ottery, 4 Dec, 1685. Will
proved Principal Registry of Bishop of Exeter, 1757,
as "widow of Sidmouth." She married at Fen Ottery,
5 Aug., 1707, George Duke, of Collaton Rawleigh.
Will dated 16 Feb., 1731, proved 6 July, 1736, Court
of the Archdeacon of Exeter.
From Seaton Parish Church Registers: —
1650. Anne, dau. of Edmund Walrond, Esq., and of
Anne his wife, bapt. 16 Apl., born 2 Apl.
1677. Mr. Thomas Duke and Mrs. Anne Walrond,
married 30 Nov.
1678. George, son of Mr. Thomas Duke, born 30
Aug., bapt. 17 Sept.
4. Cicill Ayer, bapt. Fen Ottery, 23 Dec, 1687, died 3 June,
1770, bur. Fen Ottery. M.I. " Stirpis ultima." She
marr. at Feniton, i Nov., 1715, as "Cicely," Matthew
Mundy (son of Matthew Mundy, rector of Plymtree
1687-1736, will dated 19 July, 1736, prov. 8 Oct., 1736,
Princ Reg. Bishop of Exeter), Queen's Coll., Camb.,
B.A. 171 1, M.A. 1734, Rector of Fen Ottery and
Vicar of Harpford 17 Aug., 1734, and Rector of
Plymtree 23 Dec, 1736, died 2 July, 1759, aged 71,
bur. Fen Ottery. M.I. church. Issue —
(a) Matthew Mundy, Queen's Coll., Camb., B.A. 1737,
M.A. 1741, Vicar of Budleigh 21 Sept., 1741, died
5 Dec, 1793, aged 76, bur. Fen Ottery. M.I.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 39
(b) Thomas Mundy, gent., marr. at Ottery St. Mary,
5 May, 1755, Mrs. Elizabeth Marker. They had
issue a son, Matthew, born 26 June, bapt. at Ottery,
4 Aug., 1758. He died 18 July, 1821. M.I. Fen
Ottery.
Thomas Mundy, " one of the Govenors," was bur.
at Ottery, 25 Apr., 1771 ; his widow EHzabeth was
bur. there 27 Apr., 1805.
Thomas Southcott, of Ottery St. Mary, gent., in his
will dat. 15 Jan., 1750, prov. 23 Aug., 1751. directs —
" My trustees to retain Thomas Mundy, of Ottery
St. Mary, gentleman, as their steward and agent."
{c) Dorothea, died 8 March, 1808, aged 88, bur. Fen
Ottery. M.I. church. " Spinster."
(d) Mary, bapt. Ottery, 24 Nov., 1725.
5. John Ayer, bapt. Fen Ottery, 3 Feb., 1691, bur. there
25 Apl., 1691.
6. Marshall Ayer, bapt. Fen Ottery, 3 Feb., 1691, died 31
July, bur. Fen Ottery 4 Aug., 1720. M.I. church,
with arms, Ayer imp. Luttrell. Will dat. 4 July,
1720, prov. 24 Aug., 1720, and again 20 Jan., 1734.
He married first Elizabeth, 3rd da. of Southcote
Luttrell, of Santon Court, born and bapt. 14 July,
1680, at Braunton, died 11, bur. 14 July, 1715, at Fen
Ottery. M.I. church. By her he had issue —
1. Marshall Ayer, bur. Fen Ottery, 29 Jan., 1712.
2. Marshall Ayer, born 1712. Balliol Coll., Oxford, 14
Feb., 1728-9. Died at Marseilles in France 29 Jan.,
1740-1, bur. in Fen Ottery Church 18 July, 1741.
3. Luttrell Ayer, bur. Fen Ottery, 14 July, 1715. M.I.
church.
He married second at Ottery St. Mary, 13 Feb., 1717,
Mrs. Mary Baker, by whom he had issue —
1. Elizabeth Ayer, bapt. Fen Ottery, 22 Jan., 1718.
2. Charles Ayer (posthumous), bapt. Ottery, 10 Sept.,
1720, and bur, there 9 May, 1739.
His widow, Mary Ayer, married secondly, James
Maynard, chirurgeon, of Ilminster {Marr. Lie, Exeter,)
9 July, 1 73 1. She was bur. at Ottery, 28 Apr., 1763.
James Sweett, gent., and Miss Mary Maynard, junr.,
were marr. at Ottery, by lie, 5 Aug., 171 2.
40 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
Arms of Marshall, as appears on the seal attached to the
will of John Marshall, 1671 — O^, a mill rind, sable.
Arms of Ayer, as on gravestones in Fen Ottery Church
and seals to wills — Gules, on a bend between six crosses formee
fitchee argent, three mullets sable.
Memorial inscriptions, Fenn Ottery Church, S.W. of
church, near the font : —
In memory of / Marshall Ayers, of / Ven Ottery C, who / departed
this life ye / 15th day of Aug., 1708. /
Arms — Aver, with two impalements: the dexter— Cooke
OF Thorn ; the sinister— Duke of Otterton.
N.W. of church, facing the above : —
Here lieth the body of / Elizabeth, the wile of / Marshall Ayer,
gent. / and Luttrell their son / who departed the nth day of / July
Anno Dom 1715. / On the left side of this / stone liethe ye body of /
Marshall Ayer, Esq. / husband of ye aforesaid / Elizabeth, who died jf
July 31, 1720, in ye 29th / year of his age. /
Arms — Ayer impaling Luttrell.
Marble tablet on the north wall of chancel : —
H. S. E. / Matthaeus Mundy, A.M. / Hujus ecclesiae necnon de
Plymtree / Rector / Qui obiit Julii 2, 1759 / anno aetatis 71. / Sic etiam
Cecilia uxor / Marshalli Ayer, Arm: filii / et stirpis ultima / Quae obiit
Junii 3, 1770 / anno aetatis 83. / Talis emicuit utriusque Integritas / quali
mortem vere fugerent / Praesenfes / Vitam tutissime imitentur / Prae-
sentes et Posteri. /
Marble tablet on the south wall of chancel : —
Revd. Matthew Mundy, M.A. / Vicar of Budleigh / obt. 15 Dec,
1793, aets. 76. / Dorothea Mundy, spinster / obt. 8 March, 1808, acts.
88. / Dorothea Isabella / daughter of Captn. Mundy, R.M. / and Mary
his wife / obt. 23rd Octr., 1809, aets. 3 years / and 9 months. / Also
her youngest brother, Gideon Ayer / obt. 17th F'ebry., 1816, a;ts. 12. /
Also her second brother, Thomas George / obt. ist June, 1818. aets. 17. /
Also her third brother, William Terry / obt. 9th Febry., 1821, aets. 18. /
Also to the memory of / The Revd. Matthew Mundy, M.A. / late Vicar
of Rockbeare / died ist Sept., 1864 / and Mary his wife / who died
8th Dec., 1861. /
Marble tablet on the south wall of chancel : —
To the memory of / Matthew Mundy, Esqre. / Captain in H.M.
Corps of Royal Marines / who died July i8th, 1821, aged 63 years. /
This tablet, the last tribute / of an affection.ite wife, is inscribed : /
This corruptible must put on incorruption / and this mortal must put
rm immortality. / I. Cor. xv., 53. / Mary, widow of the above Matthew
Mundy, Esqre. / and daughter of the late / Revd. George Carwithen,
Rector of / Ashprington / died June 13th, 1846, aged 76 years. / She
was buried under this chancel with her / husband and four children.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 41
A surviving son / and two daughters, mindful of her faith, hope / and
love, inscribe this record to her memory, / Thanks be to God, which
giveth us the victory / through our Lord Jesus Christ. / I. Cor. xv., 57. /
Wills.
John Marshall of fFenottery, Co: Devon, gent : Poore of
ffenottery 20s. : Cicill Ayer daur. £^ : Sister-in-law Sarah
Stoford ;^io if she happens to overlive me : Katherine
Godolphin daur. of Wm. Godolphin of Teigngraze £5 :
Martha Godolphin daur. of Gentle Godolphin of Plymouth
£^0 : Thomas Godfery son of Thomas Godfrey of ffenottery
20S. : Jane Ware daur. of ffrancis Ware of flFenottery 20s. :
John Mercer of Ottery St. Mary gent., George Drake of
Ailesbeere gent. 20s. a peece : John Luce son of John Luce
of Upton Pyne Co. Devon Littlewell in Ottery St. Mary
during natural life of him and John Luce yeildinge & paying
the same to Marshall Ayer my grandson and his heires the
yearly sum and rent of twenty shillings by quarterly pay-
ments : James Marshall of the City of Exeter, Brewer : To
Marshall Ayer my grandson and to the heires of his body
all my lands and tenements and heredditaments whatsoever
being within the said Co. of Devon for want of heires to
John Luce and for want of heires to James Marshall of the
City of Exeter Brewer : all my goods and chattells what
soever to grandson Marshall Ayer sole executor. John
Mercer, John Drake overseers. Dated 3 April 1671, proved
u October 1672. Court of the Archdeacon of Exeter.
(W.) Ezekiel Yarde. Thomas Eliot, flfrances Ware.
Inventory £75^ 6s. Seal — Arms of Marshall of Teigngrace.
Marshall Ayre of Venottery, Co. Devon gent. Sonn
Marshall Ayre & to his heires all my lands tenements here-
ditaments and estate whatsoever lying within the Parishes
of Venottery Harpford Ottery St. Mary Withycombe Raw-
leigh & Teigngrace Co. Devon: daur. Cicill Ayre ;^8oo to
be paid her when 21 or day of marriage ;^io to be paid
within one month : daur. Dorothy Duke wife of George
Duke of Colyton Rawleigh ;^ioo : Wife Mary £^ : Sonne
in law George Duke : 20s. to poore housekeepers of Harp-
ford : 40s. to parish of Venottery for ever in the hands of
the parish to be lent to any poor housekeeper not receiving
alms of the parish : Elizabeth Radford my apprentice 20s. :
Rebecca Burnell servant 203. ; son Marshall sole exor:
42 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
Well beloved friends John Shile of Slapton gent. Mr.
Joseph Gilling of Harpford clerk trustees and overseers to
each one guinea for their labour. Dated 2 Aug. 1708.
Proved 4 flfeb. lyog. Court of the Archdeacon of Exeter.
(W.) John Lissant. Charles Lugg.
Charles Churchill junr.
Seal — Arms of Ayer.
Marshall Ayer of Venottery. Co. Devon Esqr. Sister
Dorothy v/ife of George Duke of CoUiton Rawleigh gent :
Sister Cicill wife of Matthew Mundy clerk to each ^50:
Mary my now wife ^100 halfendeal of all my indoor goods
for housekeeping (except my books & one Box & what is
therein contained): daur. Elizabeth Ayer ^15, when of age
£10 a year : in case the child my wife now goes with shall
be a daughter & in case such child my wife now goes with
shall be a son : in case the child be a daughter: to my daur.
Elizabeth to each of them ;^6oo a peice & ;^40o: To Mr.
George Duke and Thomas Wright of Heavitree Esq. to each
of them one guinea piece of gold to buy them each a mourning
ring : Mr. Charles Baker Thomazin his wife & Judith their
daur. & Mr. Charles Rugge of Newton Poppleford to each
one guinea of gold for a mourning ring : Mr. Joseph Gilling
two guineas of gold for to preach my flfuneral sermon : Charles
Churchill of Ottery St. Mary ffive pounds: Poore of Ven-
ottery £1 : Marshall Ayer my son : servant Rebecca Burnell
£^ : Marshall Ayer sole and whole executor : Thomas Wright
& George Duke overseers guardians & trustees of my said
son : Charles Churchill to aid & assist my trustees : son
Marshall Ayer to be kept to my sister Dukes until he be
capable of being sent to the grammar school.
Dated 4 July 1720, proved 24 Aug. 1720. Court of the
Archdeacon of Exeter.
(W.) Isayah Simonds. John Thomas.
Mary Churchill.
Seal — Arms of Ayer with crest.
Matthew Mundy of Plymtree Co. Devon, Clerk: daurs.
Dorothy Mundy Sarah Mundy & their heirs for ever all that
my perpetual advowson Right of patronage Donation & ffree
Disposition of and in the Rectory and Parish Church of
Plymtree together with all the glebe lands: daurs. Mary
Mundy Aune Mundy : Poor of Plymtree £2 ids. : grandson
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 43
John Selfe* when 21 ;^5 : Mathew Mundy my son one pound
one shilling and unto Cicillie his wife a mourning ring the
value of wch. I leave to the discretion of my executors :
grandsons and granddaur. Mathew & Thomas & Dorothy
Mundy a mourning ring (as before) : Son in law John Selfe* :
Sister in law Dorothy Raw a mourning ring : all my books
to my daurs. Dorothy & Sarah Mundy as they shall chuse
for themselves after my said daurs. have so taken then to
my daurs. Mary & Anne the remaining part to my son
Mathew Mundy. Four daurs. executors.
(W.) Ehzabeth fford. William Pratt.
Joseph Brutton.
Dated 19 July 1736, proved 8 October 1736. Principal
Registry of the Bishop of Ej^^eter. A. J. P. Skinner.
38. Mayoral Elections in West Country Churches
(IX., p. 19, pars. 13, 14, 15). — I am glad to see my inquiry
followed up by so good an authority as Mr. " E. W." When
I framed my inquiry I did not credit the assertion recently
made by a prominent writer on ecclesiastical matters, that
both Plymouth and Totnes had formerly (? when) elected
their Mayors in their respective churches. In thanking
Mr. Tapley-Soper for his references, may I point out that
another writer in Notes and Queries, subsequent to the letters
he mentions, has called attention {Notes and Queries,
Dec. II, 1915, p. 470) to the fact that all authenticated
cases of Mayor-choosing in church have taken place in the
East of England, and that it decidedly remains to be proved
that it was ever done in the West. It is most likely, in
my opinion, that the learned doctor has mistaken the elec-
tions in Plymouth of the Guardians of the Poor for those of
the Mayor. Of the former I have personal recollection ; of
the latter I challenge proof. Ecc. Ant. Inq.
39. "Clyst" and "Week" (IX., p. 20, par. 18). — Week
otherwise written W'ick or Wyke and in another form Wich
(just as Dyke and Ditch have a common origin) is a Saxon word
closely related to the Greek Oikos and the Latin Vicus.
The Greek word Oikos means a building or dwelling ; the
Latin Vicus and the Saxon Wic, a group of buildings or
*(?)Sesse. Mart. Lie, Exeter— 1751, July 22. John Sess, of Plim-
tree, surgeon, and Elizabeth Mundy, of the same, sp.
44 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
village, and generally a villaj^e in the country. In such
names as Northwich and Droitwich the group of buildings
were generally for salt producing, hut in Norwich and
Greenwich the Wich simply means a village. On the other
hand the group of buildings called a Week or Wick were
generally put up for milk producing purposes. Hence a
Wick is commonly used of a dairy farm.
Clyst is commonly said to be a Cornish word meaning
sluggish, because of the slow stream of that river, but it
may be derived from the Saxon clisian, to close or to shut,
because it shut ofTor enclosed a large tract of land.
Oswald J. Reichel.
40. "Clyst" and "Week" Place Names (IX., p. 20,
par. 18). — Your correspondent R. J. asks for the origin and
meaning of " Clyst " and " Week " place names. " Clyst "
is probably derived from tlie Welsh word •• Glwys," a
hallowed place, a fair spot. In the old English Chronicle it
appears as Glistun or Clistun. In Domesday Survey as
Clistone, Glustone. Also in Domesday for the counties
of Bucks, Worcester and Dorset, Clistone or Clistune.
" Week" Cornish Gweek from Latin " Vicus," a town or
village. Old Eng^lish '* Wic," " a dwelling." K. M. C
41. Lease of Land at Colompton. — This Indenture
made the fourteneth daye of flfebruarye in theight yere of
the reigne of oure Sovereign iadie Elizabeth [1566] by the
grace of God Quene of England ffrance & Irelande defender
of the / fTaitli ect betwene John Balfron of Bradnynch in
the countie of Devon [blank] & Julian his wiff of thone
parte and John Pratt of the same towne & countie Miller
of thother parte Witnesseth th* / Robert heliar hath &
holdeth for terme of certen yeres yet enduring if the said
Robert so long happen to live all those messuages landes
tenements meadowes leafnes & pastures with thappurtenances
called " / lieng & being in the parishe of Colompton in
thesaide countie of Devon with comon of pasturage upon
Hillersdon Downe for all his beasts & cattalles att all
tymes of the yere together with the * / quarry parke as
by one indenture thereof to hym made more playnly appereth
And wereas John Hillersdon esquier by his indenture being
date the third daye of March in the .xxxj'** yere * / late
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 45
soveraigne lord of famous memorye henry theight late Kyng
of England dydd devise graunte & confirme unto the said
Julian by the name of Julyan heliar daughter of the said
Robert * / singuler the said landes tenements meadowes
& pasturages called Bourne & Shutlake with the
comon of pasturage aforesaid & also the said quarrye
called quarrye parke & all and singuler other the
pre [misses] To have & to hold all & singular the
said lands tenements meadowes & pasturages called
Bourne & Shutlake and all other the premises before
expressed & specified unto the said Julyan * / daye of the
date of the said indenture untill thei3 & terms of fourscore
yeres from thence next ensuyng & fullie to be compleat &
ended if the said Julyan so long happen to live which -'• /
begynne to take effect ymediatelie from and after the death
surrender or forfeiting of the said Robert helyer Yelding
& Payeng then therefore yerelie to the said John hillersdon
/ twentie five shillings of lawfuU mony of England at foure
tymes of the yere principall and most usuall by even
porcions with divers other covenaunts grauntes clames &
agreements / specified as by the same more at large
appereth Knowe ye nowe that the said John Balfron &
Julyan his wiff for & in consideracion of the sum of sixe
poundes thyrtene shillings] / of lawfull money of England
to them by the said John Pratt at thensealing of these
presentes well & quietlie paid whereof they knowledge
themselffe to be fullie satisfied and thereof do '■' / & exonerate
the said John Pratt his executors & admynystrators by these
presents do fullie & clerelie give graunte assign / unto the
said John Pratt & his assignes all there hole estate
tenure title and interest which the said John Balfron
& Julyan his wiff as in the right of the said Julyan
nowe * / said recyved indenture maye should & ought
to have in & to the moytie & halfendeale of all &
singuler the sayd mesuage landes tenements leafnes &
pasturages with thapp[urtenances] / Bourne & Sheetlake with
the comon of pasturage upon hillersdon Downe aforesaid
together with the moitie of the quarrie called quarrie parke
with all and singuler the appurtenances / & enioye the moietie
& halfendeale of all & singuler the said mesuage landes
tenements comon of pasturage and quarries aforesaid with all
4*3 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
& sinj^uler the appurtenances to the said John / & assigned
for and during the hole term estate & interest of the said
John Balfron & Julyan his wiff as in the right of the said
Julyan of & in the same & for & during as many yeres * /
John Balfron & Julyan his wiff as in the right of the said
Julyan nowe have or maye have or by the said indenture
before receyved ought to have in or to the moytie of the /
parcelles thereof And the said John Balfron & Julyan his
wiff for theym & theire executors & admynystrators cove-
nanten & graunten & every of them doth covenannte and
graunte to & with the ■• / his executors and assignes by these
presentes that all & singuler . . . [folded here] . . . with th
appurtenances are clerlie exonerated acquytted & discharged
of all former bargaynes sales graunts & '^'- j made or don by
the said , . . [folded here] . . . And ffurther the said John
Balfron & Julyan his wiff do covennant & graunte to and with
the / his executors . . . [folded here] . . . John Balfron &
Julyan his wiff . . . [folded here] ... of theym at any tyme
or tymes happen during the said */surrendermg or gevcn upp
the . . . [folded here] . . . thereyn conteyned nor do nor suffer
to be don any other acte or actes thing or thinges which
shall or maye * / wise hurtfull or prejudiciall to the said
receyved indenture or to the said estate interest or tenure of
yeres of the said Julyan yn or to the premysses or whereby
the said recyved [indenture] / or might lose his force or in
any wise be made voide in lawe but that the said John
Balfron & Juljan his wiff or one of theym shall att all tymes
hereafter from tyme * / the reasonable request of the said
John Pratt his executors or assignees or any of them bryng
or showe or cause to be broughte or showed the said former
indenture in any / maiesties courte of assize or elsewhere for
preservacion & mayntenance of the right title interest &
tenure of yeres of the said John Balfron & Julyan his wiff
as in the * / Julyan in & to the premisses or any parcel
thereof during the said tenure And the said John Pratt doth
covenante &. graunte for hymselffe his executors & assignees
to & with '■■'■ I Balfron Sc Julyan his wiff & every of them by
these presentes that the said John Pratt his executors &
assignees shall from henceforth from tyme to tyme during the
• / exonerate acquitt & discharge the said John Balfron &
Julyan his wiff ik. every of them of for and concernyng the
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 47
moiety or halfendeale of all covenanntes graunted articles &
* / are on the parte of the said John Balfron & Julyan his
wi£f as in the right of the said Julyan to be observed
performed fulfilled made don or kept of for & conceryng * /
halfendeale of the said messuages lands & tenements &
other the premisses or any parte or parcelles thereof And
FFURTHER the Said John Balfron for hym his executors * /
assignees doth covenante & graunte to & with the said John
Pratt his executors admynystrators & assignees & every of
them by these presentes that if it happen •' / to die lyving
the said Robert hehar her fFather that then the said John
Balfron his executors or assignees shall repaye or cause to
be repayd unto the * / his executors or assignees the sum
of sixe poundes thirteene shillings & foure pence of lawfull
money of England att one hole entire payment * / nexte
after the death of the said Julyan without covyn fraude
or delaye In Witnes Whereof the partes aforesaid to these
present indentures . . . * / Seales geven the dale & yere
first above writen. Beatrix F. Cresswell.
42. Marriage of John Edye. — From the Marriage
Register of Wootton Fitzpaine, Dorset : —
1797. April 19, John Edye, of Winterborne, Glos., and
Frances Walrond Oke.
Frances Walrond Oke was daughter and heiress of
Walter Oke, of Pinney (died 18 Dec, buried at Axmouth,
21 Dec, 1779), and his wife Frances (married at Holy
Trinity, Exeter, 25 May, 1773; died 6 Dec, buried at
Axmouth, 10 Dec, 1775), daughter and heiress of John
Walrond, of the City of Exeter and of Tidwell, East
Budleigh.
John Walrond (buried at Holy Trinity 8 Oct., 1755)
was the second son of Henry Walrond (died 16 Aug.,
buried at Holy Trinity, Exeter, 20 Aug., 1728, aged 60,
M.I.), of Exeter and Tidwell, and his wife Elizabeth
(married at Holy Trinity, 27 Dec, 1706; died 15 Aug.,
1727, aged 41 ; buried Holy Trinity, M.I.), daughter of
Clement Weekes (died 20 Jan., 1715, aged 64; buried Holy
* Signifies portions missing through the document having been cut.
It is also impossible to read some of the words where the document
has been folded.
48 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
Trinity, M.I.), of Exeter, merchant, and his wife Mary
Munckly, Mar. Lies., Exeter, 29 May, 1682 (buried Holy
Trinity, 13 April, 1734). Tidwell House, in 1810, was the
property of John Edye, of Pinney, in right of his wife.
Walter Oke's sister Maria was the wife of James
Manning, of George's Meeting (see D. S^C.N. S'Q., vol. vi,
p. 222).
Henry Walrond, of the City of Exeter, Esqre., in his
Will dated 5 Aug., 1728, proved 15 March, 172I (P.C.C.),
bequeaths " My Manor of Tidwell-cum-Budley and lands
in East Budley upon trust for my eldest son Henry Walrond;
to my said son Henry whilst at the Temple."
Henry Walrond, of Bedford House, in the City of Exon,
Esqre., " Counsellor," bur. Holy Trinity 3 Jan. 1746, in his
Will, dated 30 Aug., 1746, proved 24 Jan., 174I (P.C.C.),
bequeaths "To my brother John Walrond and his heirs
for ever my new capital Messuage and my Barton and
Farm of Tidwell, and my Manor of Tidwell, in East
Budleigh ; also all my goods, etc., in Tidwell new house."
A. J. P. Skinner.
43. The Itinerary of John Leland (IX., Appendix,
p. 8). — In the last par. on p. 8, enumerating the bridges
over the River Tamar, the bridge next below Greystone
Bridge is called Hawte Bridge. This should probably be
Hawse Bridge, the name by which it is now known being
Horse Bridge. Horse Bridge is quite close to Hingston
Down, and some connection with Hengst and Horsa has
often been suggested, probably without warrant in the
latter case. A. C.
44. KiTTERY, Devon. — May I trouble your readers about
a matter in which I am interested, and concerning which I
have tried to get information without success from England ?
In Stackpole's history. Old Kittery and her Families, there
appears this statement: — "As to the origin of the name of
Kittery, some have guessed at it and stated their guesses as
historical facts. ... It is certain that Alexander Shapleigh,
who built the first house at Kittery Point about 1635, came
from a place called Kittery Point in Kingswear(e) near
Dartmouth, England, and without doubt he gave the name
10 the spot where he built. Kittery Point was so called
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 49
before the name Kittery was given to the township, in all
probability." The foregoing, of course, refers to Kingswear,
opposite Dartmouth, at the mouth of the Dart, in Devonshire.
I have tried to find some reference to Kittery Point in the
articles in the Bvitannica on Devonshire, Dartmouth, Dart,
etc., or to find it on the maps; I have also sent two letters
to England in the past year, but have not as yet received
any answer. Is it a fact that there is, or was, a locality in
the town of Kingswear known as Kittery Point ?
Kittery, Maine, U.S.A. %^^.\b^' Justin H. Shaw.
45. Simon Grendon. — Information wanted concerning
Smion Grendon (several times Mayor of Exeter, founder of
Ten Cells), and his descendants. C. F. Cole.
46. Richard Rose Drewe. (VIII, p. 28, par. 31). —
St. Lawrence, Exeter: — 1772, August 12 — Richard Rose
Drewe and Hannah Spencer, of St. Stephen's, married by
Herman Drewe ; in the presence of Edward Fitzgerald,
Jane Spencer. A. J. P. S.
47. Remains of an Ancient Building in Exeter
(VIII., p. 161, par. 143; p. 237, par, 181; IX., p. 4,
par. 5). — The question is, what evidence — suggestive, if not
decisive — can Miss Prideaux adduce in support of the theory
she has put forward that this was a Norman Chapel ? I
cannot claim to have established my own opinion that it
was from the first a secular building, but as it was, un-
questionably, a dwelling house at least as early as the 14th
or 15th century — a period when one would he chary of assuming
that a consecrated building had been secularised — the onus of proof
of its ever having been anything but a dwelling house surely
rests with the advancer of that theory. I am afraid I must
leave it to those more familiar with Norman architecture
than myself to decide whether both of the two types of flooring
recalled by me as testifying to the possibility of constructing
floors largely independent of walling, go back to the 12th
century. As to the antiquity of the first type (of which I
argued that any traces might well have vanished, in the
case in point) there can be no doubt, for Turner* in a chapter
* Turner and Parker's Domestic Architcclure in the Middle Ages, p. 16.
See also contemporary record of floor-corbels in walls ibid. pp. 18, 19.
50 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
devoted to the "12th Century" writes: — "The existence of
corbel-stones, on which the joists of flooring were carried, in
the remains of domestic buildings of this date, both ecclesiastical
and secular, shew that wooden floors were in ordinary use."
Of the second — the framed and putlogged type — (to which,
by-the-bye, I alluded quasi-parenthetically) the only example
to which I can give a definite reference (though I have seen
others) is that which I have described in Trans. Dev. Assn.
XXX, 200. It had been pronounced "of the 15th century,"
but was set in masonry believed to have been standing in
or before 1242.
Even if I were satisfied that the interior of the Preston
Street building was open from ground to roof, I should not
concede that it was thereby demonstrated to have been a
chapel* ; and I still think that the absence of any indications
of an intermediate floor is hardly satisfactory (negative)
evidence seeing that Miss Prideaux's Plan itself shews how
very little of the original internal walling is left in which
such traces might be sought for.
"The King's House" at Southampton, the "St. Mary's
Guild House" and "the Jews House" at Lincoln, all of the
12th century, retain Norman windows and fire-places in their
upper chambers, but, as I understand, no vestiges of the old
floorings remain.
The " 32 chapels " mentioned (without date) in the
" Transcripts from the old Missal of St. Martin's," not being
distinguished by name or locality, it would be a bold commen-
tator who should profess to identify them.
This document is inserted in the Cartulary of St. fohn's
Hospital, at fol. 36. The paragraph in question runs (if I
may trust my own cursory notes), " In die marcelli pp* obiit
Rob' fir Gul' de archidiac' Totton, qui dedit xxxij d xxij
capeir, de domo q' fuit Bald. Pyper in vico australi exon,
et debet solui p man' hospital' sci Jo. B."
As to the roof-timbers assigned in the Report of the
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings to the 14th
century, and by Miss Prideaux to the 15th, I have turned
to the article by Mr. F. Howard m the Archaological Journal
*Vide Turner and Parker, op. cit., pp. 40, 41, and Encycl. Brit.,
bub verb. " House."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 51
(vol. Ixxi), cited by Miss Prideaux as shewing, in figs. 17, 18,
and 19, some 15th century West-country roofs having *• a
very close similarity " to the one in question, and I find
that similar in outline though they are, most of these are
"double framed," alias "double-raftered," roofs, and that in
figs. 18 and 19 the principal rafters, and in fig. 17 the
arched braces shew mortices orother signs of having had
purlins (i.e. horizontal timbers for support of common rafters)
framed into them,* whereas in the Preston Street house, the
trusses are quite free from such insertions, the purlins here
resting upon the couples in a way that strongly suggests
the conversion of a single-raftered into a double-raftered
structure.! On the other hand, in fig. 15, a diagram of
an arch-braced, single-framed roof shews a truss of the same
construction as that in Preston Street (and without mortices,
etc.) and this is marked " Sutton Courtney, Berks. Chancel,
i^th cent." Devonshire, however, as a stone rather than a
wood county may have been a little behind-hand in its
carpentry, and no doubt 14th century models were sometimes
repeated in the 15th century.
I much regret the two mistakes to which Miss Prideaux
calls attention, and for which I am at a loss to account,
as I see my pencil extracts, from which I condensed the
footnote, are quite correct. In the Report, floor beams in
the east portion of the Preston Street house are attributed to
the 15th century, and in the west to the 14th, and the soffits
of two of the latter beams are said to be morticed for a
partition. I did not see the Report till after I had sent in
my article (to which I added the footnote as a P.S.), and
I have only now noticed (on p. 269 of the same minutes) the
letter from Mr. Brakspear, dated 18th (sic.) Jan., 1915 (and
referred to, I think, by Miss Prideaux, p. 162 ante) m which
he says " There is no reason to suppose this building to have
been anything but an ordinary house of the period." [Norman] .
Ethel Lega-Weekes.
* The only exception is Bcaford, which has a semi-circular arch
and is undated.
fin single-framed roofs the trusses were set only about i« inches
apart, and the battens carrying thatch or tiles were fastened directly
to them ; there were no purlins, and no superior range of common
rafters.
52 Devon and Cornwall Notrs and Queries.
48. Anthony Goddard and the Defences of Plymouth.
— The will of Anthony Goddard of " PHmmouthe," in the county
of Devon, merchant, dated 28 Dec, 1599, and prpved 10 Oct.,
1600, P.C.C. (60 Wallop) shows him to have been one of
those public spirited citizens of whom his town and county
have produced so many eminent examples. " Item. — I give
and bequeathe unto the Toune of Plimouthe one Demye
Culveringe of yron wayeinge Twenty Six hundred and a
halfe, one long carrage titt for her, One Ladell, one Spunge
and fiftye demy Culveringe Shott upon this condicon that
the same shall be sett by the Lyme Kills nere the olde castell
of Plimouthe with a coveringe over the same continuallye to
remaine for the keepinge thereof drye to be by the toune
maintained." Testator further bequeathed to his children
Humphry, William, James, Avice, Agnes and Elizabeth ^^250
each at 21, and ;^25o in trust for his daughter Mary, wife of
Abm. Adams, and a similar sum for his daughter Christian,
wife of Samuel Carpenter. Residue to eldest son Anthony
and daughter Philipp, wife of Jerome Verneworthie. Over-
seers " my especial and trustye frendes Mr. Thomas Payne,
Thomas Uppam, John Martin and Peter Silvester." [Under
certain conditions] ;^500 to remain in the hands of the Maior
and Comiiialtie of the burroughe aforesaid ; ;^2o towards
the mainetenance of a Preacher within the said toun
and the use of the residue to be bestowed in erectinge the
lowest Roofe of the Guildhall there of Plimouthe in equal
heighte with the roofe of the saide Guildhall and for the
making of a Shambles in a streate called the old Toune within
the l)orough aforesaide and also for and towards the mainten-
ance of the Castles within the said toune. Provyded alwaies
that the said Twentie Powndes by me geven towards the
maintenance of a Preacher shalbe and remain as aforesaid
as my fre guifte forever over and besydes such yearely stipend
as nowe is or shalbe geven by the Maior and Cominaltye.
Item. — To Thomas Uppam preacher of Plimoutiie Tenne
Pounds. (This was Thos. Upham, M.A., Fellow of Exeter
Coll., Oxford, Vicar of Plymouth 1603). Item — To Thomas
Payne five puundes. Item. — To John Martin five poundes.
Item. — To Peter Silvester ffive poundes. Item — To John
Luxton my Attorney ffive poundes. Item — To John Heale
my Attorney ffive poundes. Item. — Tojosua Smafet Phisicon
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 53
ten poundes. Item. — To Walter Glubbe £-^ 6s. 8d. Item.
John Antill of Plimouthe gent. £10. Wit., Leonard Pomery,
Tho. Sherwill. Codicill spoken 22 Feb., 1599, provides for
losses to be equally borne by legatees if Shipping miscarry.
Wit., Thomas Uppam, Preacher, Thomas Payne, Peter
Silvester, John Martin. W. U. Reynell-Upham.
49. Parish Register Inaccuracies (IX., p. 5. par. 6). —
I am interested in the Tallaton Registers. My people were
of Larkbere for four or five generations from William Cottell,
born at North Tawton, 2nd son of Thomas Cottell of that
place (his house still standing there), who was from the old
family at Yealmbridge, Justice of the Peace and Subeschea-
tor to the King for the County of Devon. This William
Cottell died in 1634 and it was his grand-daughter, Mary
Cottell, who was married to Philip Westcott in Tallaton
Church in 1657. The Cottells dropped out of residence at
Larkbere about 1686. One (Mark) born at North Tawton,
but " bred in my childhood " at Tallaton, became Registrar-
General to the Archbishop of Canterl.-ury, left ;^2oo to the
rebuilding of St. Paul's Cathedral, £'2.00 to Christ Hospital,
who died an aged man at his residence at St. Paul's Close,
had a sermon (copies extant) preached at his funeral at
St. Paul's Cathedral by Dean Freeman, afterwards Bishop
of Peterborough, and lies buried under his pew in St. Bennet's,
Paul's Wharf, with his wife. Lady Sackville, with his and
her arms on the tomb. He died in 1681 — his will and coat
of arms, excellently painted, is in the Register of Wills, year
1682, at Somerset House. Discrepancies in parish registers
I found from experience in their examination of no inextensive
character was the rule with few exceptions. There were
other difficulties, of pecuniary and clerical character some
fifty years ago which happily do not now exist, but to these
exceptions I must pay a passing tribute to the late Revd.
Robert Hawker who transcribed gratis all of my name in
Morwenstow Register and bade me welcome to his home.
Of Philip Wescott I have no trace except he be the Philip
Wescott in the pedigree of Wescott, year 1620, Harleian
Society. A Drusilla Wescott witnessed my ancestor's will
(John Cottell) at Crewkerne in 1784, and I shall be thankful
to know who she was and also for a sight of the copy of the
54 Devox akd Cornwall Notes and Queries.
Tallaton Registers. Larkbere is, I presume, a better class
old farmhouse. Before the Cottells went there a family
named Hull resided there, of whose descendants some now
reside at Brighton. W. H. Cottell.
50. Arms of the Family of Manningford. — It has
been a matter of interest to me, on resigning the Rectory
of Manningford Abbas, and coming to live, for a time, at
Braunton, to find on the Bellew Monument in Braunton
Church the arms of the family of Manningford. The shield
at the top has fourteen quarterings, of which the seventh
is Manningford. So says the Revd. J. F. Chanter in his
book on the Church of St. Bratmock, Byaunton. Mr. W. B.
Incledon Webber, of Buckland House, has informed me
that the coat is arg. a chev. wavy between 3 roses gules, and
comes into the Bellew Monument as follows : —
John Affi:ton = E. Makmngford
I
Hugh Stuckley = Cathakink Afkktox
i
Nicholas Stl;ckley = Thomasine Cockworthy
Sir Thomas Stuckley = Anne. da. and heitcss of Sir Thomas Wood
Sir Hugh Stuckley = Jane, da. of Sir Leu-is Pollard
Ann Stuckley = \Vm. Hellew
Richard Bellew = Margaret St. Leger
The monument is to this Richard Bellew.
Can any of your readers give any information as to the
family of Manningford ? Whether it still exists ? Did it
hail from Wiltshire ? Does any stone or wood carving with
these arms exist in Devon ?
The Affeton and Stuckley families were settled in North
Devon, beyond Bideford, not in Braunton neighbourhood.
H. A. C. TOMKINS.
51. JosiAS Trevelyan. — Josias Trevelyan was a son of
John Trevelyan, of Nettlecombe (1534- 1577), and his wife
Wilmot, daughter of John Harris, of Hayne, John Trevelian,
of Nettlecombe, Somerset, Esq., in his Will dated 27 Feb.,
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 55
1622. proved 24 May, 1623, P.C.C. (44 Swann) mentions
" my brother Josias, ^5, and to Katherin and Cecil, his
daughters, 50/- each." As little is known about him, the
following may be of some interest.
From Shute Registers : —
1593. Mr. Josias Trevelyan, married to Mrs. Cicilie Starr,
21 August.
(She was daughter of Ralph Hurden and widow of John
Starr the younger, of Seaton, gent., who was buried at Seaton,
10 May, 1592).
From Seaton Registers: —
1597. The xiith daie of September, being Wenesdaye, Josias
Trevilian, gentleman, had a daughter baptized,
Katheryne.
1600. The xxvith daie of December, St. Steven's daie, Josias
Trevilian had a daughter baptized, named Cicilie.
1602. The xvth daie of December, beeing Wenesdaye, Josias
Trevilian, gentleman, had a sonne baptized, named
Edward.
1604. The xiith daie of October, being Wenesdaie, Edward
Trevilian, the sonne of Josias Trevilian, was buried.
1604. The ixth daie of November, being flfrydaie, Josias
Trevilian, gentleman, had a daughter baptized, named
Agnes.
1612. The viiith of June, being Munday, John Whicken,
of Colyford, maryed to wyfe Anna Starre, the
daughter in law of Josias Trevillian, gentl.
1591. The xxith daie of Januarye (being ffryday) Anne Starr,
the daughter of John Starr, gent., was baptized.
(As the first book of Seaton Registers, at this period, is
somewhat imperfect, there were most probably the baptismal
entries of other children.)
Marriage Licence, Exeter: —
1623. May 5. Commendum Gaich, of Nettlecombe in Co.
Somerset and Cicilia Trevillian, of Axmouth.
From A xmouth Registers : —
1624. Henry Trevilian and Jane Stokes, married 29 May.
1603. Jane, dau. of John Stokes, bapt. 4 June.
1625. John S. Henrie Trevilian, bapt. i6th April.
1627. Jane, dau. Henry Trevilian, bapt. 27 May.
1629. Bridget, dau. Henrie Trevilian, bapt. 31 Jan.
56 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
1630. Cicely, wife of Josias Trevillian, buried 7 November.
1634. Marie, dau. Henry Treuillyan, bapt. 30 July.
1636. Katherine, dau. Henry Trevilian, bapt. 12 ffeb.
1636. Hugh Leaues and Agnisse Treuillian, married 17
May.
1637. Susannah, dau. Hugh Leaues, bapt. 2 Dec.
1641. Sara, dau. Hugh Leaues, bapt. 11 April.
1644. Susanna, dau. Hugh Leaues, liur. 15 June.
1661. Jane, wife of Henry Trevillian, bur. 20 Nov,
1662. Nicholas Hooper and Sarah Leaues, married ig Nov.
1673. Hugh Leaues, bur. July 23.
1682. Sarah, dau. of John Trevillian, bur. June 16.
1683. Dorothy Trevillian, widdow, bur. Oct. 12.
1685. Agnes Leaues, widdow, bur. May 17.
1687. Dorothy, dau. of Dorothy Trevillian, bapt. ffeb. 6.
1691. William, s. of Dorothy Trevillian, bapt. Dec. 26.
1699. John. s. of Dorothy Trevillian, bapt. ffeb. 7.
1699. Henry Gregory and Mary Trevillian, married June 19.
1700. Jane Trevillian bur. May 24.
1715. John Trevillian bur. March 13.
1719. John Clark, of Coliton, and Dorothy Trevilian, ye
dau. of Dorothy Trevellian, married June 3.
1723. Dorothy Treuillian, of this parish, bur. April 6.
From Colyton Registers : —
1653. Henery, s. of John Travillian, of Slade, bapt. 7 April.
1655. Mary, dau. of John Travillian, of Slade, borne 18 June.
1657. Robert, s. of John Travillian, borne 14 Oct.
1659. William, s. of John Travillian, bapt. 13 Nov.
1660. William, s. of John Travillian, bur. 11 Oct.
i68i. Josias Travillian, of Compine, bur. 10 Jan.
From Lyme Regis Registers : —
Marriages.
1700. Henry Trevilian and Margaret Wendover, 3 June.
1715. Henry Trevilian and Elizabeth Lock, 12 July.
1725. Henry Trevilian and Elizabeth Bonner, 17 Nov.
From Uplyme Registers : —
Burials.
1730. Henry Trevellan, Aug. 13.
1733. Edward Trevellian, Mar. 24.
1743, Elizabeth Trevellain, Oct. 7. A. J.P. S.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 57
52. Newton Ferrers: Error in Cal. Inq. 10 Edw.
III. (IX., p. 6, par. 7). — The Record OfiBce identification is
probably quite correct. Besides the better-known Newton
Ferrers in Devon, there is another Newton Ferrers near
CaUington in Cornwall, both deriving their name from the
same Nich. de Ferrariis. The latter place was the residence
of the late Digby Collins, Esq. A. C.
53. Calendars of Devon and Cornwall Wills and
Administrations. — This volume, issued by the Devon. Assoc,
in igo8, is a most valuable contribution to the study of West
Country genealogy. I have recently had occasion to look
through the first 215 pages of it very thoroughly and have in
consequence noted several points which may be classed as
Corrigenda, Addenda et " Inquirenda." On page 39 (1677)
we have the name Lemreth given ; this should be l^anreth..
It looks as if the writer of the copy for the printer wrote his
au, his em and an in an indistinguishable manner. In few
things is legible writing more necessary than in the copying
of old documents. It is especially necessary in the case
of u and n that they should be distinct and unmistakable.
E«dellion in this volume is quite often printed Ei/dellion.
Page 41 (1702) has the entry Collier, Thomas, Elizabeth,
the latter word is presumably a mistake for the name of
Collier's parish.
Page 124 (1684) Marshal], Digory, St. Gummyns, is
presumably St. Germans or St. Gerrans. A reference to the
Collectanea Cornubiensia would clear up this point. Unfortunately
I have not the volume by me just now.
Page 181 (1782) Symons, Henry, Lithney. This should
surely be Sithney.
Page 185, Tregoman I opine should be Tregonnan, a
name to be met with in several parishes in Cornwall, whereas
Tregoman is entirely "un-Cornish."
Page 205. Twice on this page occurs the words Hatherley
in Phil. Though White was quite a common name in
Phillack there is no such place name as Hatherley in that
parish, nor do I think there is such a name in Philleigh.
Does Phil, stand for Buckland Filleigh ?
Page 207 (1712) has Weymouth, Samuel, W^eymouth^
this is possibly quite right, but I " hae ma doots."
58 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
Page 40 (1691) Coffin, Francis, of Laniras, should this
be Lancras or Lanrack ?
Page 29 (1787) Baron, Wm., clerk, Bame, query i?anie.
Page 68 (1715) Lameston should be Lanceston.
Page 58 (1782) Gun walls „ „ Gunwallo.
Page 56 (1745) Ludgvem „ „ Ludgven.
Page 54 (1681) Cabert „ „ Cubert.
Page 35 (1634) Go van presumably Goran.
Page 151 (1781) Gowan „ Goran.
Page 90 (1706) Huthname should be Huthnance.
Page 91 (1720)
Page 126 (1727) Lauceston „ ., Lanceston.
Page 130 (1799) Phillach „ ,, Phillack.
Page 133 (1699) Nauscawne ,, ,, Nanscawne.
Page 133 (17 1 6) Garmoe ,, ,, Germoe.
Page 135 (1616) St. Nyst presumably St. Nyot.
Page 186 (1635) Treleagne should be Treleague.
Page 189 (1703) Treuwith „ „ Trenwith.
Page 194 (1787) Tregise „ „ Trezise.
Page 200 (161 3) Lawreath „ „ Lanreath.
o ,, . , , T. Hambley Rowe.
54. Stooke of Waddon and Clifford of Chudleigh. —
In the autumn and winter of 1645 Fairfax was besieging
Exeter for the Parliament. His army was encamped at
Tiverton, cutting off supplies from Exeter. During December
parties were despatched from Tiverton which occupied
Ashton — marks of the bullets are still to be seen on the
church door — and Christow Church, where the sexton was
shot in the Church porch, and stormed Canonteign which
was held for the Royalists.
On 26th December Cromwell obtained from Gen. Fairfax
a body of cavalry with the intention of surprising the
Royalists at Bovey. It was cold, wet and dark, but they
made their way through Crediton and down the Teign Valley
to Christow and Cannonteign. From that they would march
along a road which was destroyed some 70 years ago, passing
by Higher Farm and coming out in Brand Iron Lane, just
below Higher Mill. Thence through Hennock to Bovey.
The Royalists suspected no danger. The officers were
playing cards when suddenly Cromwell and his men appeared
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 59
under the windows. The oflScers threw the stakes out to
the troopers, and while they were picking up the money
escaped by the back door. Eighty men were taken prisoners.
Among the officers was Mr. Clifford.
About the year 1560, Sir Peter Courtenay acquired the
estate of Ugbrook, which before that time belonged to Exeter
Cathedral. Sir Peter's daughter Anne married Anthony
Clifford, who through her became the owner of Ugbrook.
Their son Thomas, commonly called Dr. Clifford, married
in 1601 Anne, youngest daughter of Hugh Staplehill, of
Brimble, in the parish of Ashton, whose most interesting
monument is in Trusham Church. They had a son, Hugh
Clifford, who married Mary Chudleigh, daughter of Sir George
Chudleigh, of Ashton, and died in 1639-40; and another
son, Thomas, who was born in 1630 (he was made Lord
Clifford in 1672 and died in 1673). I '^^ °ot know which Mr.
Clifford it was engaged in this affair. It may have been
the last mentioned Thomas, who would be only 15 years
old, or an elder brother. But whichever member of the
family it was he seems to have been living at Brimble, and
one of his servants who was escaping with a bag of gold was
pursued by two others sent after him. He crossed the Teign by
the old bridge that broke down and was replaced by the
present one about 70 years ago, came up the old Tinkley
Lane, through Trusham village, past good old John Crockford's
house and the old Rectory, then past Preston's (now called
Prisons), owned at that time by old John Stooke, the
father of William, George, John, Edward and Thomas.
The old man may have stood on the wall and seen the
fugitive and his pursuers gallop past. They must have been
close upon him, for only about 300 yards on, just past the
turn up to Ashton and Exeter and before he came to Labbers
Brook as he passed along by the field called Kiln Close,
called so from a lime kiln that was formerly there, he
was so hard pressed that he threw the bag over the hedge.
What became of the man or his pursuers is not known. The
good people of Trusham cared little for him or for them, but
happily for many an old soul of that fortunate parish and for
the eleven Parsons whom since have enjoyed the benefaction
of the "Sacrament Land Charity" thereof, the bag of gold
^vas found by young John Stooke, son of the owner of
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Preston's Farm, includin<? " Kiln Close." John Stooke was
then 17 years old. Nothing more is known of him till as
an old man he is described as "Clothier of Chudleigh,"
otherwise of Trusham, possessed of lands in Trusham,
Ashton, Christow, Bovey and Hennock. It is presumed
that the bag of gold enabled him to go into business and
acquire the various properties so many of which he left to
various charities on his death in 1696. I always think that
the inscription on the Almshouses in Trusham has reference
to the happy find of December 27th, 1645. "All things come
of thee and of thine own have we given thee."
The above was furnished me by Mr. A. T. Stooke, of
Waddon, Chudleigh. Edward Windeatt.
55. Itineraries. — As this subject is of interest to your
readers at the present time, may I be permitted to call
attention to an itinerary which has been printed recently,
I refer to that of Captain Jenkin Jones, R.N. (1819), printed
in the West Wales Historical Records, Carmarthen, 1912, vol. i.,
p. 97. The route in Devon was : — Exeter, Tiverton, Barn-
staple, Tawstock, Bideford, Clovelly, Barnstaple, Ilfracombe,
Lynton, Ilfracombe. R. B. M.
56. Tom Putt Apples (VII„ p. 47, par. 25; p. 64, par.
38; p. 99, par, 65; p. 140, par. 113), — The communications
of your correspondents on the above leaves one with the
impression that the Rev. Thomas Putt first cultivated the apple
which bears his name in Devonshire; but a communication
signed Mary M. E. Roe, of Trent Rectory, published at p. 319
of the September, 1915, issue of Notes cS* Queries for Somerset
&' Dorset most emphatically states that " It v/as while he
[The Rev. Thomas Putt] was Rector of Trent (1802-1832)
now in the County of Dorset, that he originated the famous
apple which bears his name," and that locally this apple
is called "Tom Pudd." Curiosus II.
Since the above was received our attention has been directed
to the Dec, 191 5, issue of Somerset &> Dorset Notes
<§• Queries wherein it is stated (page 332), that the Hon.
Mrs Marker has communicated a family tradition to the
effect that the originator of the Tom Putt apple was the
uncle of the Vicar of Trent, Thomas Putt, Esq., born in
1722, who died at Combe, Devon, s.p. in 1787. Eds.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 6i
57. History of the Parish Church of St. Mary
Magdalene, Barnstaple. — The story of St. Mary Maudlin's
Priory at Barnstaple from 1107 to 1536 and of the establish-
ment of the new parish of St. Mary Magdalene in 1842 and its
continuance to the present day, is well told by the vicar,
Rev. R. J. Edmund Boggis, M.A., B.D., in a little book of
200 pages with the above title. The only thing which seems
to have escaped the writer's notice are the early charters to
the priory in the recently published Calendar of Documents in
France.''- In details they do not always agree with the
charters given by Dugdale and Dr. Oliver.
Oswald J. Reichel.
58. Exeter Episcopal Register (Lacy, Part II). — In
the new volume of Lacy just issued by the Devon and
Cornwall Record Society, on p. 434, first line, occurs the name:
John, Rector of Byry (Berrynarbor), and a footnote is
appended that William Brownynge was instituted Rector
in 1430 (Lacy, p. 128) but it is not stated in succession
to whom. This note should be amended. John, Rector of
Byry, was John Lynde, though there is no record of his
institution. In Brantyngham's Register, p. 884, there is a
record that John Lynde, Rector of Berry-Narbor, was
ordained accolite 24 Sep., 1390; he held the living for a
long period and was Penitentiary for Sherwell Deanery
during almost the whole of Stafford's Episcopate, as well as
part of Lacy's. See my list of Rectors of Berry-Narbor, in
Dioscesan Gazette for 1910, p. 181. J- F. Chanter.
59. Dr. Oliver's Library. — Does any reader of D.&C.
N.&Q. possess or know of a catalogue of the sale of effects
of Dr. George Oliver, who died at St. Nicholas Priory,
Exeter, aged 80, on the 23rd INIarch and was hurried on the
2nd April, 1861, "near the high altar in the chapel he served
so long"? H. R. W.
60. Manor Rolls. — I should be obliged if any reader
would tell me where may be inspected the rolls of the manor
of Down-Umphraville, Axmouth {c. 1832), then the property
of Mr. Thomas Northmore. Has any plan been considered
for providing in Exeter a central place of deposit for manor
rolls ? R. B. M.
* This Calendar can be consulted at the Exeter City Library. — Eds.
62 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
6i. The Arms of Fulford (VIII., pp. 226-7.) —
The inscription on the tomb of Thomas and Ursula
Fulford was, I believe, put there about seventy years
ago, when certain alterations, including the opening up
of a blocked window in the Fulford aisle, were carried
out at the instigation of Dr. Oliver. At the same time an
epitaph in verse, which, whilst extolling the virtues of
Thomas and Ursula, referred to the Papists m somewhat
harsh terms, was removed by Col. Baldwin Fulford out of
consideration for the feelings of his old friend Dr. Oliver.
The latter, with Mr. Pitman Jones, had, as joint editors
of Westcote's Devonshire^ revised the pedigree of the Fulford
family. On what evidence they appear to have been
satisfied that this Thomas Fulford was a Knight, I do not
know, it may have been the visitation pedigree quoted by
Mr. Were, Westcote's'-'' own notes, or Hoker's Synopsis
Chore graphica, vide Devon Notes and Queries, vol. iv., part iii.,
but all these visitation pedigrees are notoriously unreliable.
A more recently published one is in the third edition of
Hutchin's Dorset. In that pedigree, compiled by Thos.
Bond, Esq., of Tyneham, from Harvey's, and the subsequent
visitation, 1623, with additions from original evidences, the
Thomas Fulford in question is given as an Esquire, and
I believe this to be correct.
The Sir Thomas knighted in 1460 was made so by the
Earl of Devonshire at the Battle of Wakefield, not at
Newmarket as stated.
William de Fulforde, temp. Rich. I., was not a knight,
vide Worthy's Devonshire Wills.
Charles Aldenburgh Bentinck lived at Indiho or Indio
as it is now spelt, not Instow, another of Vivian's errors,
vide D. &. C. N. &• .Q., vol. ix., part i, p. 26.
The Sir William Fulford described by Prince in his
Worthies of Devon is as mythical as Sairey Gamp's friend,
Mrs. 'Arris. There never was such a person.
The supporters borne by the Fulfords of Fulford are
Saracens. There is not the slightest foundation for the
assumption that they were " probably woodmen," and the
•VVestcote lived within two or three miles of Fulford and Dunsfoid,
and most probably was personally acquainted with Thomas Fulford
and his family.
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assertion that their continued use is a pure piece of amateur
heraldry is equally incorrect.
The use of supporters is not so limited as Mr. Were
appears to imagine. Certain families, amongst them the
Fulfords, bear them by prescription, vide Woodward's British
and Foreign Heraldry and Burke's General Armory. Edmondson,
an authority quoted by Burke, and also by Berry in his
Encyciopcsdia Hevaldica, contends " that those families having
anciently used such supporters either on their seals, banners
or monuments, or carved them in stone or wood, or depicted
them in the glass windows of their mansions, etc., as
perspicuous evidences and memorials of their having a
possessory right to such supporters, are fully and absolutely
well entitled to bear them," and he adds "that no one of
the descendants of such families ever ought to alienate
such supporters or bear his arms without them, because
such possessory right is by far more honourable than any
modern grant of supporters."
Rightly or wrongly, that is the reason the Fulfords have
stuck to their supporters. Francis Fulford.
62. Some Studies in the Topography of the Cathedral
Close (IX, p. 28, par. 21). — The words on p. 145 of my
book, "... the lion & wyvern, supporters of Queen
Elizabeth ..." were quoted by me from a Report to
the Ecclesiastical Commissiomrs, the writer of which has since
admitted having used the word " wyvern " in mistake for
dragon (as noted in the " Addenda and Corrigenda," p. 190).
Ethel Lega-Weekes.
63. Gennys of Launceston and Plymouth. — There is
reason to believe that some member or members of this
ancient Cornish family migrated to Ireland in the 17th century.
Any information on the subject will be gratefully acknow-
ledged by --Ci. f- 7^ Gertrude Thrift.
64. Silver Gilt Chalice in Ipplepen Church. —
Information is sought with reference to a magnificent silver
gilt chalice in Ipplepen Church, tempore circa, 1650, of which
I believe there are only two other specimens in England,
one at Bath Abbey and the other sold a few years since by
Christie, Manson and Woods for 1500 pounds or guineas.
Fred. Day.
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65. Dorothy Worth. — (VIII., p.59, par. 62). — In reply
to this query, Dorothy Wadham, daughter of Giles Wadham
of Barton, Somerset, occurs on the Wadham pedigree as
the wife of Humphry Worth. Giles Wadham was uncle
of Nicholas Wadham, the founder of Wadham College, and
third son of Sir Nicholas Wadham of Merefield, who died
1542. W. R.-U.
66. Hospital of St. John, Bridgwater. — I should
be glad to know where the Chartulary of the Hospital of
St. John, Bridgwater, is now? Has any portion of it been
published ? The Master and Brethren were patrons of
the livings of Davidstowe and Lanteglos by Fowey,
Morvvenstowe and Bovey Tracy, and their records may
furnish the names of vicars of these places whose institutions
are not recorded in the Episcopal Registers of Exeier.
J. H. R.
67. Robert Wenyngton. — The November, 1915, issue
of The National Review contains an interesting and instructive
article entitled " The Germans in England," in which
appears : — " And why is Wenyngton forgotten, that stout
man of Devon, who, with an inferior force attacked the
Lubeck fleet, and brought it triumphantly into the Solent ? "
And on page loi is given an account of this action. Any
particulars about this gallant Devonian would be welcomed.
S. Grose.
68. West C^l'ntry Clock and Watch Makers (VIII.,
p. 204, par, 166). — I have an old Grandfather's Clock with
long mahogany case and a silvered face which shows the
date of the day of the month and the age of the moon.
I know that it is over 70 years old. It has the name
of William Pike of Totnes, but no date. Probably he was
of the same family as James Pike, a west country man
mentioned on page 205. pu f_ i9i~' A. F. Taylor.
69. Captain Thomas Cuttle. — A correspondent has
found at the local library, that a Captain Thomas Cuttle,
commanding the Admiral's ship Pelican, sailed from Plymouth
on Nov. 15, 1577. Can anyone tell me who this Cuttle was ?
None of the histories of Plymouth mentions him.
Fredk. C. Rose.
The Rev. William Henry Thornton, M.A.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 65
70. The Rev. William Henry Thornton, M.A. —
It is with the deepest regret and sincere sorrow that we
have to record the demise of the Rev. W. H. Thornton,
one of our most frequent as well as one of the most able
of our contributors. By his death, which took place on
the 31st March, 1916, in his 87th year, the County of Devon
has lost one of the best known clergy in the diocese of
Exeter, the Church one of its most loyal workers, and the
Country a fine example of that fast disappearing type of
English clergyman, known as the " squire-parson." His
loss will be greatly felt, not only by his parishioners, by
whom he was held in the highest respect and esteem, but
also by a wide circle of friends throughout the country.
Born in 1830, Mr. Thornton was the youngest son of
Mr. John Thornton, of Clapham, London, Deputy Chairman
of the Board of Inland Revenue.
Writing of him, his son-in-law, the Rev. Edward Robert
Gotto, M.A., Vicar of Braunton, says : " He came of a good
stock, being a descendant of the Rev. Robert Thornton,
the Royalist Rector of Birkin, Yorks, whose deprivation
of his living and many privations during the usurpation of
the Commonwealth are set forth in Walker's Suffermgs
of the Clergy. He died in 1665, and there is a monument
to him in Birkin Church. Among his descendants are many
men distinguished in the public service of their country,
and not the least of these is the Samuel Thornton, of
Clapham, and of Albury Park, Surrey, M.P. for that county,
and, as a prominent member of what was called in those
days (circa 1770- 1830) the Clapham Sect, an intimate friend
of Wilberforce and Macaulay, and an associate with them
in the emancipation of the slaves in our British colonies.
This Samuel Thornton was a leader, too, in the Evangelical
party in the Church of England, and it was at his house
at Clapham that the Church Missionary Society — the most
flourishing now of all our missionary societies — was founded."
The Rev. W. H. Thornton was educated at Rugby
and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his degree
of Bachelor of Arts in 1853, and was ordained Deacon, at
Exeter, in the same year. His first Curacy was that of
Lynton and Countisbury, North Devon, in 1853, where,
** passing rich on forty pounds a year," he remained till
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1856, when he was presented by Sir Frederick Knight to
the perpetual Curacy of Exmoor, and thus became the first
Vicar of Simonsbath, where his energies were most remarkable,
he treating lightly a fifty mile ride, or a twenty or even
thirty mile walk across moor, hill and fen.
Here he remained until 1861 when he was appointed
Vicar of Dunsford, holding that living until 1866, when,
owing to the climate not suiting him or his wife, he exchanged
livings with the Rev. G. Arden, Rector of North Bovey,
where he remained for fifty years, beloved and esteemed
by his moorland parishioners, to whom he was not only a
parish priest and faithful pastor, but also a kind and
generous friend, ever ready to help the sick and the needy
and anyone requiring his aid or advice.
In 1871 he was elected Rural Dean of the Deanery of
Moretonhampstead, an office which he held for eight years.
At that time the Clerical Association — a society for the
study of the Greek Testament — claimed the Rural Dean
as its ex-officio Chairman. When he ceased to be Rural Dean,
his successor in the office was not a member of the
Association, and therefore the Chairmanship became elective,
and after nine years, i.e. in 1888, Mr. Thornton was
elected President, and so continued for twenty-five more
years. He used to regard the task as one of his most
important duties — preparing for it by study, writing papers
sometimes on special subjects, and driving long distances
to attend the meetings. When it was his turn to be host
no trouble was too much to satisfy his hospitable instincts.
The members who came by train were met with carriages
and white horses, and his genial welcome will long be
remembered. He was fond of leading the discussion into
large questions, and he may, perhaps, have preferred the
expression of opinions to the study of the Greek Text.
He has, in former days, been criticised as President for
his exuberant store of anecdotes, which, people said,
interrupted the real purpose of the meetings. But whatever
criticism he provoked in this respect, his anecdotes were
always appreciated by his hearers ; and by the papers which
he read he was able to command the attention and elicit
the opinions of other men. The Association was much
indebted to him for his guidance in any difiiculty which
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arose, and he cultivated amongst the members those qualities
which make such meetings useful. He remained a member
of this Association until his death ; even last June he was
very reluctant to surrender his annual custom of receiving
the Association at his own house.*
But Mr. Thornton's activities were not confined to his
clerical duties only. He was also an energetic public servant,
doing excellent work as a member of the Newton Abbot
Board of Guardians and of the Rural District Council, to
which he was appointed in 1885, and held office till 191 3,
when age compelled him to lead a less strenuous life.
He had very pronounced and strong views on political
questions and matters of principle, and often he wailed the
laxity of modern ideas thereon, as well as the general want
of depth and solidity shown by the younger generation in
various matters which, to him, were of such momentous
importance. He held the Deceased Wife's Sister's Act in
the greatest horror, as also the modern Civil Divorce
Laws, and wrote many powerful leaflets and articles on
these subjects and on others of the same nature, the Religious
Education question especially appealing to him.
As a scholar, too, and a man of considerable literary
powers, he was well known, as is shown by the numerous
articles and papers which he contributed to various literary,
historical and scientific publications, including the Devon
and Cornwall Notes and Queries, and to the Transactions and
Proceedings of several learned and other Societies. But his
chief works are his two volumes of Reminiscences of a West
Country Clergyman, published in 1897 and 1899 respectively —
his magnum opus; Countrymen in Council (1901); Notes on North
Bovey and Neighbourhood; and many other papers of a like
nature, and Short Devonshire Stories (191 5), which last he
prepared for the press as recently as September, 1915. He
leaves besides a large number of MSS. on various subjects,
which afford delightful reading and testify to his great
abilities and wide range of knowledge.
Mr. Thornton was also an active member of both the
Devonshire Association and of the Teign Naturalists' Field
* I am indebted to the Rev. Preb. Percival Jackson for this account
of the Rev. W. H. Thornton's connection with the Clerical Society.
68 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
Club, and contributed many papers of high merit and interest
to the Transactions and Reports of these two Societies.
There are few persons more familiar with Dartmoor,
its people, its customs, its legends or its ancient monuments
and crosses than Mr. Thornton was, and many of his papers
and pamphlets relate to them and to their preservation.
In fact, he took a prominent part in the preservation of the
ancient monuments and wayside and other crosses of the
county of Devon generally.
He was also a great lover and student of animals and
natural history in all its branches, and was particularly
devoted to horses and always kept thoroughly good ones
in his stable, treating them with the greatest care and
consideration. He loved beautiful scenery, especially the
wild moorlands of Dartmoor and Exmoor, and always
revelled in the exquisite view over Eastern Down and
Lustleigh Cleave from the window of his dining room in
the Rectory at North Bovey.
In his younger days Mr. Thornton was a keen and good
all round sportsman, but took especial pleasure in hunting
and fishing. His cheery, handsome face and kindly
greetings were, at one time, well known at the meets of
the Dartmoor and the old Eggesford Hounds. He had an
abundance of good humour and an endless store of anecdote.
A man of charming personality and air, he will be greatly
missed by all who knew him. M. A.
71. Thomas Wainwright. — Mr. Thomas Wainwiight,
the well-known Librarian and Curator of the North Devon
Athenaium, celebrated his goth birthday on April 7th of
this year, and it is with much regret that we record his death,
which took place at Barnstaple on April 28th. Although not
a West-country man, Mr. Wainwright has been connected
with Barnstaple for over 50 years. He was born at Leeds
in 1826, and was educated at the Grammar School of his
native city. Prior to removing to Barnstaple, Mr. Wain-
wright conducted a private school at Bridport, where he
was churchwarden of St. Mary's at the time of the great
restoration of the church in i860. He was also a member
of the Bridport Town Council, and did much valuable work
in tabulating and annotating the records of this ancient town,
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and as a result of the knowledge thus gained was able to
contribute to the Bridport News a series of learned articles
on the borough archives and the town's history.
On his removal to Barnstaple, Mr. Wainwright was
associated with Mr. J. P. Harris in conducting a private
boarding school, and in 1872 he was appointed head master
of Barnstaple's ancient Grammar School ; this office he held
until 1890, when he resigned in order to become Librarian
of the Barnstaple Athenaeum. The last mentioned post Mr.
Wainwright filled until the day of his death. It was in this
capacity that he was best known, and the work which he
did during his tenure will always be gratefully remembered
by local antiquaries. In addition to his great knowledge of
local history and topography, he was much interested in
botany and meteorology and took a prominent part in church
affairs. For several years he was Vice-Chairman of the
Barnstaple School Board. In 1870 he assisted in estab-
lishing the Noyth Devon Herald, and for some time assisted
in the editorial work. In addition to numerous articles to
periodical literature, Mr. Wainwright published, in con-
junction with Mr, F. R. Chanter, Banistaple Records, and in
1903 he issued a large volume consisting of a transcript of
the Barnstaple Parish Register from 1538-1812, the use-
fulness of which would have been much improved had it
been indexed or published in alphabetical form.
In 1852 Mr. Wainwright married Miss Julia Durien, by
whom he had nine children, five of whom survive. Mr.
Wainwright was interred at Barnstaple in a grave next to
that of his wife, who predeceased him some years ago.
We much regret that we are unable to follow our usual
practice of publishing a photograph with this notice, but
understand that Mr. Wainwright had a strong aversion to
being photographed, and we have been unable to secure one
suitable for publication. H. T.-S.
72. Collins (author of the Peerage). — In a recent list of
Devonians I see that Arthur Collins has been included, and
that his birthplace is given as Exeter. While sympathising
with a natural desire to claim for Devon one who has been
described as an " able genealogical historian " and an " able
and indefatigable writer," the question is, can authority be
70 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
quoted for the place of birth ? The D. N. B. is silent on
the point. Collins was the son of William Collins, who was
gentleman usher to Queen Catherine (of Braganza), and
presumably a Catholic. The date of birth was c. 1684. This
is proved by the M. I. at Battersea, co. Surrey, which records
the burial of Arthur Collins in March, 1760, aged 76 (copy
in ' Manning and Bray.') We also know that Arthur Collins
was interested in his own family history, for he says in his
MS. diary, under date January 30, 1752, "The discourse
. . . gave me an opportunity to say how I was descended
and the misfortunes that attended my family and myself, on
which they seemed to pity me, but said nothing more . . .
I have left in MS. an account of my life." (See John
Nichols, Literary Anecdotes, Vol. VIII. , 393, 1814). The
answer to my query would seem, in all probability, to be
contained in CoUins's MS. Where is this ? R. B. M.
73. Formation of the Parish of Welcombe. — The
following indenture, which shews us the steps by which
Welcombe became a distinct parish, having been formerly
part of the parish of Hartland, is, I think, of extreme interest,
not only for its local details but also as illustrating the methods
by which chapelries became independent parishes : —
" To nil Crysten People to whom this psent wrytynge in-
dentyd shall come John Pyust Abbot of the house and
Monast'ye of Saint Nyclitons of Hertlonde in the Countye
of Devon and the Convent of the same place sendyth gretynge
in o' Lorde God ev'lastynge Knowe ye that whereas in a
composition berynge date the xx"' daye of September in the
yere of our Lorde God a thousande fyve hundreth and
eight made betwyne the religyous Fader in God Rycharde
then Abbot of the said Monast'ye and his Convent of the
one p'te and John Gothyell Herry Cade Thonis Prust
Willm Pearde John Pearde and John Ybotte parochyans
and inhy"fciunts at Welcombe and other of the inhybaunts
there of the other ptye amongest dyves other thyngs was
conteynyd that the same Abbot and Convent and th^
successors shulde at there only costs and charges fynde or
cause to be founde a sufFycient Prste and Curatte to srve
the Chapell of Welcombe in the seid Countye of Devon
beynge a Chapell pendant unto the Pisshe of Stoke Saint
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Nyctans in the same Countye and the same Prste and
curate to mynystre the sacramts and sacramentalls and to
saye Masse in the seid Chapell certeyne days whiche be
lymyted and conteynyd in the same composicon and also the
same P'ste and Curatt to be contynually resident and
abydynge in the same monastery of Hertlonde as by the
composiccon more playnly doth apere. Where upon at the
desyre and request as well of the Inhabitaunts of Welcombe
afore seid as at the desyre of dy/s Gentlemen havynge lands
there and also for theven .... of Goddys S'vyce and
more quyetnys betwyne the said Abbot Convent and there
successors and the inhytaunts at Welcome and their
sncccessors contynually hereaff Hyt is condyscendyd cove-
nantyd and agreyd betwyne the same John Prust nowe
Abbot of the said monastery of Hertlonde and his Convent
by there hole assent and consent of the one p'tye and
Edward Bylle and William Trycke wardens of the said
Chapell and John Buse John Trycke John Pearde thelder
John Shepd Thorns Prust Rycharde Aysheton Thorns
M'chaunt Nicholas Pearde, John Raymant Nycholas Bery-
man John Kynge John Pearde the younger and William
Pearde inhybaunts of the same for and in the behalffe of all
other inhibaunts at Welcome whiche ys nowe be or here-
aff- shalbe of the other ptye in mano' and forme as hereafter
foloyth that is to wyte that the said wardens and inhybaunts
of Welcome for the tyme beyng shall at all tymes and as
oughte as shalbe requysyte at there p'per costs and charge
pvydeand seke for a suffycyent Pryst to mynystre all mano' of
sacramts and sacramentalls in the said Chapell of Welcome
and the same P'st at all tymes by the said Abbot and his
successors to be admytted into that s'vyce and the same
P'st so admytted not to be put owte of his s'vice by the
said Abbot ne Convent ne ther successors w' owte a
resonabul and a suffycient cause alegyd and duly pved
before his ordinarye.
Item yt ys ferther covenanted and agreyd betwyne the
said Ptyes that the said Abbot and Convent and ther
successors for ev' more henseforth shall yerely paye
unto the said Wardyns and inhybaunts of Welcome for
the tyme beynge for the wags of the P'ste fyve pounds
sterlyng in the said chapell of Welcome at iiij pryncypall
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Feasts of the yere by even porcions or w' in x days next
aft' any of the said Feasts and xii"^- yerely to be p**- to the
Wardyns of Welcombe by the same Abbott and Convent and
their successors for Bredde and wyne. And yf it happen
the said v" xii*^- to be unpaid in pte or in the hole in
mano and forme as it ys affore said by the space of one
hole monyth aft"- AftP.r any of the said Feasts of ^yitts
that then it shalbe lefull to the said wardyns ©*■ and also
the said wardyns and inhitaunts for the tyme beynge to
receive and kepe towards the exebicion of the said P'ste all
iit'ipt] dy'ryg monye and the p'fit of the dm'call (dominical) Bed-
rolle w'in the said chapell of Welcome yerely further more
yt ys agreyd betwyne the said Ptyes that all other ordyninces
acts and agremts in the fore said composiccon made to
stond in full strengyth and effect doynge and paynge in
both Ptyes as ys expressed in the same composiccon. Also
it is further covennityd condycendyd and agreyd betwyne
the said Ptyes that if the said wardyns and inhybaunts
of Welcome for the tyme beying*^^ observe fulfyll &
p'forme all and synguler the p'miss which on the^e
Ptye be to be obs'vyd and p'formyd and kept that then it
shalbe lefull to the said Abbott and convent and there
successors to stand and abyde to the foresaid composiccon
and to the olde customes in the same expressyd, this psent
indenture of covenints or any thynge not withstondinge and
all covennts and bargeyns in the psent indentures ex-
pressyd to be utt'ly voyde and of none effect. In witnes
wheroff the P'tyes forsaid to these p'sent indentures inter-
changabilly have put ther sealls. Yeven the xxiij daye of
the monyth of September in the xxiiij yere of the raign of
Kynge Henry the eight."
In the above document I have followed the spelling with
all its peculiarities and variants exactly as written, though
I should also state that it is a paper copy and not the
original indenture. This copy of the indenture is from a large
collection of documents and papers made over one hundred
years ago for an intended history of the parishes of Devon,
which, owing to the death of the original owner, was never
really commenced. I should be very glad if any of your
readers could give me any information as to where the
original indenture is now to be found.
Old Fire Hooks at Truro.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 73
I have also copies of twenty other indentures relating to
the Abbey of Hartland, all of them ^b^n^ ,of the period of
the last ^*© Abbots, John Prust'^and Thomas Pope.
5^^ n.//2- . J- F. Chanter.
74. Old Fire Hooks at Truro. — Appliances for ex-
tinguishing fires in towns and large villages were formerly
kept in guildhalls, market places, or churches. They chiefly
consisted of leather buckets, ladders, and strong iron hooks
attached to long poles.
A couple of these fire hooks still remain in the fire station
at Truro, and are shown in the accompanying photograph,
together with some of the old leather buckets, axes, nozzles
or branches, etc. The largest of these fire hooks has
17 ft. 6 ins. remaining of the original wooden staff, which
when perfect was probably about 30 ft. in length, including
the hook, and 3 ins. in diameter. The iron head is 6 ft. 3 ins.
long to the spike, and the hook projects 15 ins.
On the staff are two iron rings 3 ins. in diameter, fastened
by iron bands if ins. wide. The uppermost ring is 2 ft. 10 ins.
from the iron head, and the other a similar distance below
the first. These rings, together with probably another at the
bottom of the pole, were for ropes or chains to which horses
or a gang of men were attached ; the hook having been
thrown over the ridge beam or other projection furnishing
a firm hold", the hou-.e was then pulled down to prevent the
fire spreading to adjoining tenements.
The smaller fire hook is 14 ft. long, with a diameter of
2 ins.; the iron head is 21 ins. long and the hook 7^ ins. ;
there are no rings on it.
These fire hooks were last used at a fire about fifty years
ago. Some portions of an old manual fire engine are also
stored in the fire station and are worth preserving, and might
be put together and presented to the Museum of the Royal
Institution of Cornwall, where examples of all appliances
formerly in use but now discarded should be found.
H. W. Hockin,
Chief Officer Truro Fire Brigade.
75. Teigngrace Church. — This church is mentioned
in Bishop Stafford's Register in the year 1409 as "the Parish
Church of the Apostles Peter and Paul." In 1782 (five
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years before the date of the present building), in the survey
of the Diocese of Exeter, it is referred to as "St._Mary's
Xup ■ f^.'^. ChAilch, Te^ngrace," and the Ordnance Maps and Kelly's
• ' Directories still call it by that name. Rough notes of Exeter
Diocesan Architectural Society, 1848, sheet 12, gives
Teyngrace Church as dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul.
The faculty for pulling down the old building is at the
Diocesan Registry, Exeter, and the licence for holding
services in the new building is extant there also. The
licence gives permission to hold services in the new building
then erected until such time as that new building should
be consecrated.
The Act of Consecration (the instrument) would neces-
sarily mention the dedication, but no such instrument can
be found.
This might be thought as tending to prove that by some
oversight the present building had never been consecrated.
This would appear, however, to be a mistake. The case
does not stand alone. A similar case occurs where, however,
a supplementary document, in that instance, explained
matters. In this case there was also a licence to hold
services till the new building was consecrated. A later
document was issued revoking this Licence as being
unnecessary since the new building was built on the old
site. This is in accordance with the ecclesiastical standpoint,
which is, that if a new church is built upon the old
foundations of a church already consecrated, no further
consecration of that new church is permissible. Hence the
other document revoking the condition that services could
only by licence be held till the new building was consecrated.
The case of Teigngrace is exactly similar. A stone over
the west doorway alludes to the site as being "consecrated
forages" to the worship of God, evidently referring to that
site as the site of the old church, and, indeed, some of the
old materials are in the present building. It would appear,
therefore, that in the case of Teigngrace also, the licence
with its condition of consecration, was issued in error, and
that hence it is we can find no instrument of subsequent
consecration. By some misfortune, however, the document
revoking that licence was either never issued or has
been lost.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 75
This leaves us, as regards dedication, in exactly the old
difficulty. It would appear, therefore, that the old Church
was dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul. Bishop Stafford's
Register is correct, but what about the statement (five years
hefove the rebuilding) that the church was dedicated to
St. Mary ? Can the original church of 1409, dedicated to
St. Peter and St. Paul, have been at some time pulled down
or destroyed, and a later church erected dedicated to
St. Mary ? If so, it would be this later church, dedicated
to St. Mary, that was pulled down in 1787 to give place
to the present church.
What is the dedication of the present church ? The
old tradition that it is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul
lingers, but some say that it is dedicated to St. Mary.
Some time ago, a gentleman interested in the church
purchased a very nice old engraving of Teigngrace Church,
with the following printed below it : —
" To James Templer of Stover Lodge in the County of
Devon Esqre this south west view of the Parish Church
of Teigngrace in the same County, is humbly inscribed by
his most obedient servant. The Church, the spire of which
is 140 feet high, was designed by and executed under the
direction of James Templer Esq. the Patron at the joint
charge of his and his brothers the Rev. John Templer the
Rector and George Templer of Shopwick in the County
of Somerset Esq and dedicated to the Holy Trinity in the
year of our Lord 1787. Pub. April 23rd 1789 by J. Seago,
Printseller High Street St Giles, London."
Now our first idea is to dismiss this as perfectly absurd,
but it should be noted as follows : —
The engraving (and consequently this statement) is
dated 1789, only two years after the rebuilding. Too soon
for a mistake of that kind to be possible. Again, it is
dedicated (i.e. the engraving) to the Templers who built
the Church — one of whom was Rector and another Patron.
It is hardly possible to suppose that some correspondence
between these and "J. Seago" (the engraver or printer)
did not take place, and if so, they were no doubt his authority
for the statement. How can we suppose that a mistake
of such a kind on their part was possible ? Can any of your
readers explain the mystery ? Edward Windeatt.
76 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
76. Gennys of Launceston* (IX., p. 63, par. 63. From
Notes and Queries, 12 S. I., Mar. 4tli, 1916, par. 193). — Some
of the Cornish family of Gennys, or Gennis, which was
resident in the neighbourhood of Launceston from early in the
fourteenth century, were tenants on the lands there of Pierce
Edgcumbe, of Mount Edgcumbe. Pierce Edgcumbe had a
daughter Margaret, who married Sir Edward Denny, Knight
Banneret, grantee of Tralee Castle and the surrounding
lands, and died in 1648. The Dennys "plated" on their
Irish estate various tenants of "British race and blood,"
most of whom came from their own and their relatives'
estates in England. Amongst these tenants we find, in 1677,
John Gennis, of Tralee, who was probably one of the
settlers brought over to take the place of those exterminated
in the rebellion. It is highly probable that he was a Gennis
from Launceston. The names John and William, most
common in the Tralee family, are also most common, with
the exception of Nicholas, in the Cornish family. See memoir
and pedigree of Gennis, or Ginnis, of Tralee, by the present
writer in J. King's History of Kerry, pt. iii., p. 261.
H.L.L.D.
Notes and Queries, No. 13, 12 S., Mar. 25, 1916, p. 249: —
I am much interested in the reply of H.L.L.D. to the
query of Miss Gertrude Thrift, as the family of Gennys
played a prominent part for a long period in the civic life
of Launceston. It appears from Messrs. R. and O. B-
Peters' Histories of Launceston and Dunheved that a John
Gennys was Mayor of the borough in 15S4, 1595, 1605,
1617, and 1632 ; and he signed, next to the then Mayor, on
Sept. 27, 1620, the declaration of the Common Seal of
Launceston on behalf of the Corporation {The Visitation of
Cornwall in 1620, Harleian Society's edition, p. 281). Nicholas
Gennys was Mayor in 1641, 1657, and 1666; and Richard
Gennys in 1658; while a Nicholas Ginnys was Mayor of
Plymouth in 1703 (R. N. Worth's History of Plymouth, p. 215).
Nicholas Gennys, of Launceston, proves the most pro-
minent figure of all these. He married Katherine daughter of
• The enquiry concerning this family which appeared in our Inst
issue was also published in Notes and Queries, and by the courtesy of
the editor of that Journal we print the replies which he received. —
Eus.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 77
Ambrose Manaton, of Manaton and Trecarell (v. Sir John
Maclean's Trigg Minor, vol. ii., p. 670), who was Recorder of
the borough from 1622 to 1646, and one of its members in both
the short and the long Parliaments elected in 1640. On
Aug. 12, 1646, a new writ was issued in his place [Commons''
Journals, vol. iv., p. 621), he being disabled for his somewhat
late adherence to the royal cause, this being just a month
before Thomas Gewen, of Bradridge, — who was to become
as Manaton's successor in the representation, a persistent
critic in Parliament of Cromwell's policy — was made Recorder
on Sept. 19 (Peter, p. 281). It was before Nicholas Gennys
as Mayor that a deposition was laid on May 30, 1642, against
a prominent townsman named John Escott, Deputy-Herald
for Devon and Cornwall for criticising in pubHc the proceed-
ings of Parliament, upon the strength of which deposition
the House of Lords took drastic proceedings against the
unhappy partisan (Alfred F. Robbins' Launceston, Past a7id
Present, pp. 157, 158; 7 S., xii, 247); and in the borough
accounts of his mayoral year are several entries of expendi-
ture for special beacons and watches in praparation for the
coming trouble {Peter, pp. 259, 260). It would almost seem
to establish another connection between the Gennys family
and Launceston that William Gennis is given among the
vicars of St. Olave's, Poughill, a parish in the extreme north-
east of Cornwall, where he was buried July 21, 1548 (Boase's
Collectanea Cornuhiensis, p. 1446), as it appears that the patrons
of that living were the Prior and Convent of Launceston
(cf. Hingeston-Randolph's Register of Edmund Stafford, Bishop
of Exeter, p. 195). As the date of death is within ten years
after the surrender of that Priory, it may be inferred that
William Gennis received his presentation from this source.
Of all importance, however, as associated with the settle-
ment in Ireland of members of the Gennys family of
Cornv/all, is the fact stated by H.L.L.D. that they were
tenants ou lands held in the neighbourhood of Launceston
by Pierce Edcumbe, of Mount Edgcumbe. In 1583, the
year before John Gennys became Mayor, the borough
accounts have a record that there had been demised by the
Commonalty for one thousand years two pieces of land
adjoining two tofts upon which had been two shops, late
" the enheritance of Peter Edgcombe, of Mounte Edgcombe,
78 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
esquire, and Edmund Edgcombe, gentylman " [Peter, p. 218).
This Peter, or Piers Edgcumbe, who was Knight of the
Shire for Cornwall in various Parliaments of Elizabeth in
1585-92, and who died Jan. 4, 1607-8, was the son of Sir
Richard Edgecumbe (for whom see 3 S. xii, 9, 176) ; and he
seems to have been the first of the family to establish a
connection with Ireland. There is in the Lansdowne MSS.
(28, art. 8), a grant of 1579 to '• P. Edgcombe, Esquire, to
work and enjoy part of the product of some Mines in Ire-
land; while {ihid, 29, art. i), on June 15 of that year, "Mr.
P. Edgcombe shows to Lord Burghley that he has formed
a scheme for improving Irish Mines." No trace appears in
the voluminous collection of Cecil MSS. of the issue of this
transaction ; but it is not difBcult to associate it with the
alienation of the Launceston property four years later, for
Piers Edgcumbe was a persistent speculator, and as per-
sistently "hard up." In April, 1594, Burghley's younger
brother. Sir Robert Cecil (afterwards Earl of Salisbury),
gave directions under his own hand for the payment of " all
such moneys as are due by Edgcumbe or any other, for the
time of his or their leases " of Cornish copper mines (Cecil
MSS., vol. iv, p. 519). From that time there are not in-
frequent appeals from Piers Edgcumbe to Cecil for time to
pay what was owing on his leases of the mines royal of
Cornwall and Merionethshire, as well as on Crown
properties at Keswick, with pathetic descriptions of
endeavours to raise money from among his friends, for
" In the shires of Devon and Cornwall are many gentle-
men and others of good wealth and account, but I could
find no man willing, much less desirous, to adventure any
money with me, in such a desperate and forlorn hope the
case of those mines do stand so far ; but, in my poor
opinion, the mines in themselves do not deserve this slander."
(" From my house at Mount Edgcumbe, the 4th of June,
1597;" Ihid, vol. vii. p. 233).
It does not at all surprise to find this importunate but
always optimistic debtor submitting to the statesman, only
two months later, a suggestion that by enforcing the Statute
of Usury, " the same not intended to extend generally for
England, but only for one city," ;^2o,ooo might be gained
for the Queen, and offering to explain further if required.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 79
("At ray lodging in the White Friars, London, this 15th of
August, 1597;" {ibid, p. 353). Yet it is especially at this
moment to be recalled to his credit that in March, 1592-3,
when the House of Commons drew up a hst of " the com-
mittee for conference touching the relief of poor maimed
soldiers and mariners, Edgcumbe was placed upon it in
company with Drake, Raleigh, and Francis Bacon {Ibid,
vol. iv, p. 295).
The perpetually impecunious Piers Edgcumbe found in Sir
Edward Denny, who would appear to be the father of the
Knight Banneret of the same name mentioned by H.L.L.D.
(the husband of Piers' daughter Margaret), one of like
liability to owe money to the Crown. In March, 1599-1600,
an agreement, witnessed by Edgcumbe, affecting Sir Edward's
widow and children, came before Cecil, which mentioned
inter alia *' iioo^, a debt due by Sir Edward Denny to
Her Majesty, which he very carefully desired to have satis-
fied," provision for which was made in the deed {ibid, vol. x,
p. go). The grandson of this Piers Edgcumbe, another
Piers, was member for Newport and Camelford in the time
of Charles I. ; and though elected for the former borough
(which in reality was a part of Launceston), in January,
1627-8, when only eighteen, he had his return confirmed by
the House of Commons on April 14, after a debate on
March 22, in which Sir John Eliot took a leading part
(Robbins's Launceston, pp. 137-140). He died on Jan. 6,
1666-7, having been again chosen for Newport in January,
1662, at a contested by-election caused by the death of a
younger Sir Francis Drake, which was ineffectually peti-
tioned against ; and it was during the later years of his hfe
that the last trace of a Gennys at Launceston has yet been
noted (save Richard, Mayor in 1658, and Nicholas, Mayor
in 1666, as above), this being of "John Gennys, gen.," for
rates on property in the parish of St. Thomas the Apostle,
in which Newport was situate {Peter, p. 380).
The original query as to a particular family has thus
developed lines of investigation which touch the far greater
subject of the English settlement in Ireland ; and the inter-
weaving of the strands promises, if the inquiry be now
pursued on the additional information given, to furnish more
interesting and valuable material. It might even be possible
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to link therewith an inquiry as to whether the Hiberno-
Cornuhian association thus established assists in any way
to dispel a mystery in the representation of Newport, which
I endeavoured to get solved just half a dozen years since by a
contribution to .V. <§• 0. (ii S., i, 262). On May 10, 1647,
there was an election for Newport for the vacancies caused
by John Maynard, the famous Serjeant Maynard, of parlia-
mentary and constitutional history (who had elected to serve
for Totnes, which with Newport, had sent him to the Long
Parliament six and a half years before, the vacancy there-
by caused not having been filled in the interim), and Richard
Edgcumbe, disabled by the House of Commons for Royalism.
For these vacancies " Sir Philip Percivall, Knt.," and
Nicholas Jyeach were chosen. What puzzled me before, and
puzzles me still, is why Perceval was selected, and this,
despite the explanation {ibid, p. 372) of that highest of all
authorities on such a point, Mr. \V. D. Pink, who showed
that though Perceval had been a strong Royalist during the
opening period of the Civil War, he later quitted the King's
side and threw in his lot with the moderate Presbyterians. But
Perceval's chief public service had been rendered as •' Com-
missary-General of Provisions in His Majesty's army in
Ireland" and "Provider for the Horse" there from March,
1641-2, to July, 1647, during which period, in 1644, he was
Commissioner for the King at Oxford to treat with the Irish
confederates. Perceval was of Tykenham and Burton,
Somerset, and Duhailow, Ireland ; and I can trace no Cornish
connection of any kind to account for his choice for a
Cornish borough. He came in, however, when an Edgcumbe
(and ti)at Edgcumbe a brother of the younger Piers, and
a nephew of Lady Denny, of Tralee), went out. Is it
possible that this supplies the link of connection hitherto
missing ? Alfred F. Robbins.
Notes and Queries (12 S. I., April 8, 1916, p. 299). — According
to the pedigree I have of this family, John Gennys, of Ply-
mouth, married Catherine, daughter of John Edgecumbe, of
Plymouth, at Charles Church, May 4, 1706, and she was
buried there Feb, 28, 1759. The widow of their grandson,
John Gennys, of Whitleigh Hall, who was Mary, daughter of
^ Jacob Acworth Pownoll, married after 1781 someone of the
(>.ii')'^ Dame of Collins. Who was he? A. Stephens Dver.
Prowse Shield of Arms in Chagford Church.
From a Drazuing by Mrs. C. Lega- Weekes,
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 8i
77. Prowse Memorials in Chagford Church. — In the
Parish Church of St. Michael, Archangel, at Chagford,
Devon, the south choir-aisle was presumably appropriated
chiefly to the sittings and burials of the " very ancient and
dignous family " whose patronymic is variously written
La Paux, Prato, Preaux, Preux, Probus, La Prouse, Prouse,
De la Prouz, La Prouze, Prowse, Praz and, " perchance,"
says Sir William Pole, " Pratellis." Holinshed and others
state that a Prouz accompanied Duke William to the
conquest of England and took part in the battle of Senlac.
Westcote quotes that Willielmus, Comte de la Prouz, alias
Le Pauz, was sent by William the Conqueror with " octaginta
naves cum quadraginta militibus " to conquer England.
Berry calls him Sir Jean. The Rotuli Curiae Regis mention
Amiot Le Proz in connection with Devonshire in 1194.
Lt.-Col. Arthur B. Prowse, M.D., F.R.C.S., considers that
Prato and Pratellis were two distinct families, and he has
found no documentary evidence in favour of the supposition that
the family name was derived from St. Probus in Cornwall.
The first instance he has met with of the association of
this family with the place Preaux, is in an early charter of
the Abbey of St. Amand, Rouen, which states that " Eudo
Dapifer, son of Richard alias Turstin Haldup or Haldub,
and Seneschal to William L, William II. and Henry I., gave
to the Abbey the whole tithe of the Forest of Tison, great
and small [wood] , and the tithes of Assarts and cow-walks
and swine-walks and sheep-walks, in all the Honour of
Preaux." Eudo died in 11 20 at the Castle of Preaux, and
was buried in the Abbey of St. John, Colchester, that he
had founded, and his Honour of Colchester passed into the
hands of Henry I. Ralph de Preaux, or de Pratellis, who
is said to have been Eudo's son by Rohesia his wife,
daughter of Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare, elder son of
Gilbert, Earl of Eu, by Rohaise his wife {vide J. H. Round),
sister of Walter Giffard, Earl of Buckingham, had a grandson,
Osbert de Preaux, who by Matilda (daughter of Hamelyn,
Earl of Surrey, by Isabella de Warrenne his wife) had five
sons, John, Ingelran, Roger, William and Peter. Three
of these brethren were distinguished knights and " socii Regis,"
who were with Richard Coeur de Lion in Palestine, to
whom the third son, Roger, was Seneschal. In August,
G
82 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
1191, when the King was nearly captured by the Saracens,
whilst hawking outside Joppa, he was enabled to escape
by the devotion of William de Preaux, the fourth son, who
was himself taken prisoner. The King, however, before
returning to England, reclaimed him by exchange for ten
of the most noble of his captives. He was sent by King
Richard, with certain Bishops and Earls, to represent him
at the Election of the Emperor, Otho IV., and in 1203
King John made a grant to him of the Manor of Okehampton
(the Okementon), co. Devon {vide Rot. Litt. Pat., Vol. I.,
p. 36). This, however, does not seem to have been confirmed
or carried into effect.
John, the eldest brother, held lands in Oxford, Kent and
Gloucester, but none in Devonshire. He was, in 1200, one
of the Sureties for King John in his Treaty with Philip H.
of France. Ingelran, the second brother, held lands in
Oxford, and was witness of a Charter of John (before he
became King) in 1199, fc the Forests of Devon, Dartmoor, etc.
Peter, the fifth brother (called Miles Peroptimns), held
lands in Hants and the Channel Islands. As to his being
the first of the Gidleigh branch of the family, as given in
the traditional part of Westcote's Prowse Pedigree, Dr.
Prowse knows of no evidence connecting him with that
place.
Obviously Peter, who married Mary, daughter and
co-heir of William de Redvers de Vernon, in 1200, and died
1212, and was the great-great-grandson of Eudo Dapifer, could
not be the grandfather of W^alter Prous, or Probus, Eudo
Dapifer's grandson who, Pole tells us, held Gidleigh in
capite in the reigns of Henry II. and Richard I.; and
although a John le Pruz followed Walter at Gidleigh, it is
equally obvious that he could not have been Peter's eldest
brother John ; Westcote also makes Walter's son William
to have married the daughter and heiress of Giles de Gidleigh,
and so to have (presumably) acquired Gidleigh for the family;
whereas, as above, Walter, his father, was in possession
earlier than 11 89. Dr. Prowse indeed considers the five
brethren to have belonged to another branch of the family,
which had separated from the stock at least three generations
earlier than Peter's marriage in 1200.
But to turn to the memorials in the church. On the
Devon and Cornwall Notes .and Queries. 83
south wall is a marble monument to the memory of John
Prouz, of Chagford, Armiger, second son of Humphrey
Prouze, Esq., by Katharine, his first wife, daughter of
Tristram Arscott, of Annery, erected by Judith, his widow,
whom he had married in 1632. He was buried 26 May,
1664, at Chagford, and administration was granted to his
widow, 15 July, 1664 (Probate Registry, Exeter). She re-
married in 1665 Edward Cannock, of St. Olaves, Cornwall,
and John Prouz having left no son to inherit, the old
family soon disappeared from the parish. The epitaph runs
thus : —
In Memoriam
Viri Clariss Johannis Provz, Armig :
Antiqviss Provzorvm Familia orivndi.
Confidens Domino, Regi Fvit Ille Fidelis ;
Et Charvs Conivx, Et amico Fidvs, in lUo
Vltima Provzov Proles (De Stirpe Virili)
Arvit Extincto H^EREDES Svnt Nomine Natae,
Spiritvs aethereas illo est Sublatvs in avras,
Qvo privs ascendit Christvs ad astra Die.
MiERENS POSVIT IVDETH
RELICTA, ET FILIA GEO:
SOVTHCOT Eqvit, avrat.
Obijt 19:"° die Maij 1664
TRANSLATION.
In Memory of that most illustrious man, John Pruuz. Armiger
descended from the very ancient Family of Prouz.
Trusting in the Lord, he was loyal to the King,
a dear husband, and a faithful friend.
With him the race of Prouz (in the male line) became
extinct, [but] heir[? esses] were born of the name.
His ethereal spirit has been uplifted to the regi.ns
whither first ascended Christ, to the Star of Day.
Judith his mourning relict, daughter of George
Southcot, a Knight of golden [spurs], erects [this tablet].
He died 19 May, 1664.
A pair of (duplicate) cartouches of arms, borne quarterly,
surmount the side-pillars of the tablet, above which a cherub's
head sustains a shield of twelve quarterings beneath a capital
letter F or L, fancifully treated, over which is a mullet,
possibly intended for a mark of cadency.
Some of these coats have become indistinct, and those
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on the cartouches are suggestive of having been copied
from a reversed stained quarrel.
Farther along, suspended on high, is a small model
(such as used to be borne in funeral pageants) of an Esquire's
helmet, sable, with beaver or, crested with a demi-lion rampant
sable, langued gules, issuant from a crest-coronet.
Still farther along is a small oaken shield of arms of
Prowse of Chagford, with twenty-two quarterings, of which
I offer a drawing from a careful tracing, adding indication
of tinctures, and which I will now blazon : —
No. I. Prouze : Sa. three lions ramp, arg., as blazoned
by Sir Wm. Pole and Risdon for Prouz of Gidleigh ; they
add a lable for Prouz of Chagford, and Sir George Carew
places the lions " between nine cross-crosslets," but Holland
comments " In ye Visitation, without crosses."
No. 2. Redvers : Or, a lion rampant [azure] :■•- Brought
in by the marriage of Peter de Preaux, " Miles peroptimus,"
in 1200, to Mary, daughter and heir of William Redvers
de Vernon, Earl of Devon and Lord of the Isle of Wight,
by Mabel, dau. of Robert de Bellomont, Earl of Mellent
and Lord of Pontaudemar, by Maud, second dau. and heir
of Reginald, Earl of Cornwall.
No. 3. Dinham: Gu. four fusils conjoined in fess erm.
Brought in by the marriage of Walter, son of William and
grandson of Peter de Preaux, to the dau. of Lord Dinham,
who bore it thus when Hartland, Holwill, Ylsinton, Madford,
Southbrook and other Manors were his.t This coat, with
* Carcw, Risdon, Holland and others blazon this coat :—0r, a lion
ramp. az. ; but noticing that in my tinted copy of this coat I had left the
lion arg., and knowing the Heraldic law that forbids the placing of
metal upon metal, I wrote to the then Rector, the late Rev. Gerald Ley, to
Dr. Prowse and to the late Hardinge F". Giffard, M.A., F.S.A., enquiring
as to the true tincture, and they replied to the effect that so f.ir as
could be distinguished at such a height (as it then was) and in
shadow, the lion was of a pale tint, probably faded from azure, and as
the Redvers lion has always been blazoned azure, I have ventured so
to represent it.
t Dinham or Denham, formerly Dynant, came over with William the
Conqueror. The Dinhams held among other manors, Samford atte
Pevercll. Nutwell, Comb and Harpford, in Devon ; Cardynam, Boderell
Donugui, in Cornwall ; Dockland, Dipsham and Clifton, in Co. Somerset;
Maines, in Hampshire ; Burton, in Nrhants ; and Gaines, in Berks.
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the addition of a bordure erm., is borne by a branch of the
old baronial family which acquired the lands of Wortham
by marriage with the heiress, temp. Ric. II.
No. 4. De Gidlegh : Sa. seven rows of three bezants each.'^
Brought in by the marriage of William or Robert, son of
Walter Prouz, to the dau. and heir of Giles de Gidlegh. f
No. 5. Ferrers : Or, on a bend sa., three horse-shoes arg.
Brought in by the marriage, in 1240, of Sir William Prouz, J
High Sheriff of Devon, 1269, of Gidleigh, Holbeton, Gat-
combe, Widecomb, and Whitlegh, to Alice, dau. and heir of
Sir Fulk Ferrers, of Throwleigh, Knt.
No. 6. Pont, or De Ponte : Sa., an unripe Jordan almond,
bisected longitudinally, and laid open, each section shewing half of
the kernel, shell and drupe {or outer case), all argent, a bordure
of the last. Brought in by the marriage of William, of
Eastervale, in Chagford, and Westervale, in Throwleigh, son
of Sir William Prouz, the High Sheriff, to Elena, the dau.
of Jeffrey, or Geoffrey Pont, or De Ponte, of Eastervale.
These arms, which are unique, I take to be of the type termed
parlantes, or canting, wherein the designation of the charge
* I am told that there seems to be discernible on these bezants the
same feature that certainly exists on the bezants of the cartouches
flanking the tablet, namely, a rim of gules occupying at the top about
a fifth of the charge not one half, or we should recognize at once
what is termed in French heraldry a besant-tortcau — always placed on
a field of colour, unlike the torfeaux-besant, which is on a field of metal.
fWestcote and the Western Counties Armory state that this Giles
was nephew of Martina, Duke and Earl of Cornwall, who bore sa.
bezantee ; Burke gives for Gidleigh of Honiton, or, a castle sa., a bordure
of the second, bezantee ; either Giles or his father was steward to Richard,
Earl of Cornwall, King of the Romans.
J With regard to the incorrectness of the traditional part of
Westcote's Prowz pedigree before this Sir William, Dr. Prowse calls
attention to the statement that Sir William, who died in 1269, was the
great-great-grandson of Peter Prouze who, by his marriage in 1200 with
Mary Redvers, had an only child, Alice, who is not known to have
married and who is mentioned by her aunt, the Countess of Eu (for other
mis-statements vide ante). But of a large number of old deeds that came
into the possession of the late Rev. T, W. Whale, on his purchasing a
certain Devonshire property, the earliest ones, dating from c. 1280-1,
confirm the pedigree cf the Chagford branch of the Prouze family given
by Westcote, as well as of the last members of the Gidleigh stock from
c. 1300 downwards to 1550, at about which time the Heralds' Visitations
were instituted.
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contains the whole, or a part, of the surname, or alludes to
some exploit or characteristic, etc., of the bearer. Thus the
conspicuous display of several points in the charge, seems
to indicate, or suggest, the name Pont, or Ponte/' while the
adoption of a Jordan almond might commemorate a journey
to the Holy Land.
No. 7. Wadacott, or De Wadecot : Arg. a bend gu.,
on a chief vert, a cinquefoil of the first (Holland says " two
cinquefoils of the first quartered by Mr. Prouz," and thus
it is represented in the coat above the memorial tablet, but
the vert has faded to a bluish tint). This coat was brought
in by the marriage of William's son William to Anstice, or
Eustachia, dau. and heiress of Reginald Wadacott, or de
Wadecot, of Chagford.
No. 8. Cruwvs : Az. a bend per bend dancettee arg. and
gu. between six escallops or. Brought in by the marriage of
the last named William's son John to Maud, or Matilde,
dau. of John Cruwys or Creuse, of Anstey Cruwys, son of
Alexander Cruwes, of Cruwys Morchard, in the hundred of
Witheridge. Carew adds " two martlets in chief," and says
that it was quartered by Prouz. f
No. 9. Norton: Arg. a fess dancetee gu. in chief two mart-
lets sa. " quartered by Prouz," says Carew. Brought in by
the marriage of the last named John's son Richard or
Nicholas Prouz, of Chagford, to Mary or Margaret, dau. and
heiress of William Norton, of Newton St. Cyres, in the
hundred of Crediton. (Pole says, " And of Brock Hill in
Broad Clyst.")
No. 10. Orchard J : Az. a chevron arg. between three pears
or, (" as quartered by Prouz," say Carey and Squiers).
Brought in by the marriage of Richard's son John, of
Chagford, § to Joan, dau. and heiress of John Orchard, of
West Chaliacomb, in Combe Martin.
• Luca de Ponte, Kt., witnessed a deed of Reginald de Mohun, Lord
of Dunster, tempore Ed. I.
t John Prouz's son John married Agnes, dau. of Thomas Bampfield
of Poltimore, who bore or, on a bend ^u. three mullets arg. Risdon says
his true arms were ^' paly of six, or ami v."
\ Orchard was J.P. in Devon 18 Ed. IV., 1477.
§ He died 24 Sept., 1526. Inq. P. M.. 18 Henry VIII., No. 3.
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No. II. Cole: Arg. an ass passant between two mullets, one
in chief, the other in base gu. a bordure sa. charged with thirty-
nine plates. Brought in by the marriage of Lawrence Prouz,*
of Chagford, son and heir of the last named John, to Agnes
or Elizabeth, dau. of William or John Cole, of Colehanger,
a manor in East Allington.
No. 12. Cobb or Cobbie: Per chev. gu. and sa.; in chief
two teals arg., in base a fish naiant or (as in Visitation of Nor-
folk, 1563-1589 and 1613, and as blazoned by Burke and
Robson), Brought in by the marriage of John Prouz of
Chagford and West Challacombe, or Colloacombe, in the
hundred of Shirwell, son of Lawrence, to Agnes, dau. of
William Cobbe or Cobbie, of Norfolk.
This John Prouz had John, of Chagford, Esq., son and
heir, who married Philippa, dau. of John Harris, of Lantrest,
in Cornwall. She re-married Jenkin Franklin, of Wales.
They had Humphrey Prouz, of Chagford, Esq., living 1620,
buried 24 April, 1648, at Chagford (P. R.)
Humphrey was twice married. His first wife (m. 17 June,
1604, at Monkleigh, P. R.) was Katherine, dau. of Tristram
Arscott, of Annery. By her he had a second son John,
who died s.p. m. 19 May, 1664, whose wife was Judith, dau.
of Sir George Southcott, of Shillingford, Kt.
No, 13 (a). Arscott: Per chev. az. and erm. in chief two
stags' heads, caboshed or, the coat of Katherine's ancestor,
John or Robert Arscott.
N. 13 (&). TiLLEY, Tylly, or TiLLET : Arg. a cross fiory (T'
bet. four crescents gu. (Risdon). Brought in by the marriage
of John or Robert Arscott to Joan, dau. of Nicholas Tilley.
No. 13 (c). Renston, Rainstone, or Reynston : Arg.
a chev. sa. between three roses arg., each with a rose sa. super-
imposed. The placing of roses ar. on a field ar. contravenes
the heraldic law forbidding metal upon metal. I do not
suppose that we have here an instance of Armes a enguerir,
but rather that it is the painter's mistake for roses sa. voided
of the field (arg.) Papworth gives Arg. a chev. bet. three roses sa.
This coat was brought in by the marriage of John or Robert's
son John or Richard to Joan, dau. and heir of Renston of Devon.
No. 13 (d). is a repetition of 13 {a), the Arscott coat.
* He was aged 46 years in 1526, and died 4 Jan., 1548. Inq. P. M.,
2 Ed. VI. (1547-8). Pt. I, No. 18.
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No. 14 (a). LiPPiNcoTT : Party per fess emhatthd gu.
and sa. ; in base a " leopard-cat " passant gardant arg. Carew
blazons the coat of Lippincott of Wibbery ptye p. /esse
embattled g. and sa. three leopard cattes passt ar., but
Holland blazons it Per fesse gtil. and sab. in chief two plates ;
in base a catt pass, gardant. But in this shield the charges
in chief ..(if any) have disappeared. This coat was brought
in by the second wife of Humphrey Prouz, of Chagford
(Mar. Licence 3 Aug., 1620, Exeter). Honor,* dau. of John
Lippincott, of Wilberry, or Wibbery, in Alverdiscott, and
widow of Richard Coplestone, of Woodland. She was buried
9 Apr., 164 1, at Chagford.
No. 14 {b). Gogh, or Gough : Sa. a chev. between three
mermaids, hair, glass, case and comb arg. Carew says, betiveen
three mairemaydes arg. heyre glasse and case-combe or. Holland
adds, " quartered by Lippincott." This coat was brought in
by the marriage of Honor's great-grandfather, Philip
Lippincott (ob, i June, 1567) to Alice, the dau. and co-h.
of Richard Gough, of Kilhampton, or Kirkham, in Cornwall;
but, instead of preceding, it should have succeeded 14 c.
No. 14 (c). Lapflode, Lapford, or Laplode : Arg. a
chevron bet. three goats' heads conped gu., horns or, as blazoned
in the Armory of the Western Counties. This coat was
brought in by the marriage of the above Philip Lippincott's
father John (son of John and his wife, dau. of Wykes), to
Jane, dau. of John Lapflode, Lapford, or Lapfllode, of Sid-
bury, CO. Devon.
No. 14 (d). GoFF, Gogh, Goove, Gough, Gove : Arg. a
cross fusilly between four eagles displayed sa. (see Risdon). Brought
in by the marriage of Honor's father, John Lippincott to
Barbara, dau. of Digory Grenville f of Penhele, in Corn-
wall, by Philippa his first wife, J dau. and heir of Goff (etc.),
* Vivian, in his Prouz Ped., calls her dau. of Bellew, but rectifies the
error in his Lippincott Ped. All the above particulars concerning Honor
are confirmed by two marriage settlements possessed by the late Rev.
T. W. Whale and copied for me by Dr. Prowse.
t Son of Sir Roger Grenville, called ' the Great Housekeeper,' for his
liberality.
X In Preb. R. Grenville's Memoirs^ etc.. there appears to be an
erroneous interchange of names between the children by the first wife
Philippa, and those by the second wife Mary, dau. of Nicholas Cavell, of
Cornwall, and widow of John Restorick.
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89
X<
of Woodbury, in Budleigh, and of Gooveshayes in Clay-
hidon, in Hemyoke (see Pole). This coat ought to have
come next after 14 (<!).
No. 14 (i). Scudamore: Gu. three stirrups or, leathered
sa. Brought in by the marriage of Honor's grandfather,
John Lippincott, 9 July, 1597, to Anne, dau. and co-heir of
Roger Elford, of Sheepstor, or Schattestor, CO. Devon, whose
grandfather, John Elford, married Joan, dau. and co-heir of
John Scudamore, of Sheepstor.
No. 14 (/) Lippincott: A repetition of 14(a), but of
the " Leopard catte " scarcely a vestige remains.
^^ r ' '2 ' ■ (Mrs.) C. Lega-Weekes.
78. North Molton Woollen
Merchants' Marks.— I shall be glad
of any information relative to the trade
or merchant's mark on a carved stone
on the exterior of an ancient house in
N. Molton, where a considerable trade
used to be carried on in the woollen
industry, hence, I imagine it to be
a woolstapler's mark. Can anyone
inform me what signification the figure
4 has in connection with the wool
trade, it being so frequently used in
these marks ?
^p.:2i^. ^/l/i^.A.pU- Fred. Day.
79. Laetitia Drake (Vol. VI I^., par. 1S4, p. 261). —
Memorial Inscription on the north wall of the Bosanquet
Chapel, in the parish church of Broxbourne, Herts : —
Near to this place lye buried the bodyes of John Baylie,
of Hodesdon, Esq., & of Lettice his wife, who was
daughter to S'- Will. Skeffington, of Fisherwicke, in the
County of Stafford, K'- and Barronett, by whom he had
issue 2 sones 3 daughters. John, his eldest sonne, died
before him ; Elizabeth, his eldest daughter, was married unto
William Lenthall, of Lincoln's Inne, Esq. ; Lettice, his
second, unto Will. Drake, of Colliton, in y^ County of
Devon, Esq. ; Susanna, his youngest daughter, who was
married to Nicholas Baker, Ge ; Richard, his surviveing
Sonne & heire, dedicates this monument to the memory of
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his good Father, who was a man of primitive piety and
severe only to himselfe ; he changed this life for a beter
the 6"' of Aprill, 1659, aged 63 ; and Lettice his deare wife,
died August y*" 29th, 1658.
Reader thinke of thine, and of thy Saviour's death.
This world's deceit, Hell's horrour. Heaven's glory.
That time is not recallable thy breath
May stopp this minute, meditate the story
Of thy past accous, fast repent & pray
Prepaire thyselfe thus for y° judgment day.
Above are the arms of Bayley : — Argent, three torteaiix, and a
chief gules, impaling Skeffington, viz.. Quarterly ofS : i., Argent,
three bulls' heads erased sable, differenced with a crescent ; ii., Vert,
a bend between six mullets or; Hi., Argent, three eagles displayed
sable ; iv., Vert, a fess vair between three leaves erect or ;
v.. Ermine, on a chief indented gules, three escallops argent ;
vi., Argent, three crows sable, beaked and legged gules; vii., the
same as ii. ; viii., Argent, a chevron gules between three cinque-
foils sable. %^pMi Z^" ■"^. A.J.P.S.
80. A Shillingford Story (IX., p. 29, par. 23). —
A correspondent has pointed out that another version of
the story is recorded by " Peter Pindar." It will be found
in a poem entitled " The Royal Visit to Exeter," on p. 478
in Vol. III. of the 1812 edition of his works.
Eds.
" Now Varmer Tab, I understand,
Drode his legs vore, and catch'd the hand,
And shaked wey might and main :
' I'm glad your Medjesty to zee ;
And hope your Medjesty,' quoth he,
' VVuli nere be maz'd again.'
' Maz'd I maz'd ! what's maz'd f ' then zed the King ;
' I never heerd of zich a thing.
What's maz'd ? What, what, my Lord ? '
' Hem,' zed my Lord and blow'd his noze ;
' Hem, hem, Sir ; 'tis, I do suppose.
Sir, an old Devonshire word.'
And then my Lord a scratch'd his head ;
And, coughing wance or twiss, he zed,
' I'll try to vend it out.'
And then agen he hcmm'd and haad ;
And puziin while his pate a claw'd,
King George a tern'd about."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 91
81. Devon Church Plate. — Considerable interest was
aroused among Devonians by a letter which appeared in
the Observer of the 30th April, 1916, in which are described
two pieces of church plate which had been disposed of at
a Red Cross sale held at Messrs. Christie's saleroom on the
loth of April, 1916. These were: (i) a silver-gilt Elizabethan
chalice and paten (lot 510), which realized ;^24o. This
chalice and paten were bought some 30 years ago in a
shop in Torquay, the then owner stating that they had
been found at some time or other in a river in the neigh-
bourhood, it is believed, of Oxford ; (2) a flagon of the time
of Charles I. (lot 511), having on it the following inscription
under a coat of arms : —
In perpetuam amoris Sui Memoriam erga Ecclesiam parochialem
Sowton Lagenam banc argenteam in usum Sacras Csenae Domini ibidem
administrandae bumiiime Dedicavit Gulielmus Beavis de Faringdon in
Comitatu Devon Generosus A.D. 1703 ;
which, being translated, reads: —
William Beavis, Genileman, of Faringdon, in the County of Devon,
has most humbly dedicated this silver vessel in everlasting memory of
his love towards the Parochial Church of Sowton, for the use of the
Sacred Supper of the Lord there to be celebrated. A.D. 1703.
There is no proof that the chalice and paten (No. i)
belonged, at any time, to any church in Devon, and its only
connection with the county is that it was at one time for
sale in a shop in Torquay ; but that the flagon (No. 2)
was, and still is, the property of the parish of Sowton
cannot be questioned. It is entered in the Terrier of Goods
of that church in 1726, and no faculty exists for its ahen-
ation. The explanation of the alienation appears to be that
80 years ago the flagon, being then considered a useless
piece, was given by the then incumbent of the parish to a
local benefactor, who had recently presented the church with
a new silver-gilt Communion set of the fashion of the time.
Since then it has lain forgotten and uncared for in a plate
room. In looking over this plate, a descendant of the
original recipient came across this flagon, and recognising
its value, presented it to the Red Cross Society for sale.
But the announcement of its sale attracted the attention of
several members of the Devonshire Association and of
Devonians generally, and on the history of the flagon and
of its alienation being brought to the knowledge of the donor,
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he very generously purchased back his own gift, at a cost
of ^590, and restored it to Sowton Church. Our readers,
no doubt, will be glad to learn the satisfactory result of this
transaction ; but it should be noted that no one now living
is responsible for the alienation. M. A.
82. Brudenell M.I., Sandford Church. — On the
floor of the north aisle of Sandford Church is a gravestone
inscribed : —
Here Lie the Remains of
Mr Harthory Brudenell
of High House in ye Parish
of Dodbrook who executed
the office of Collector of
Excise with the greatest
Integrity near Fifty years.
He died Feb: 20, 1744. A«ed 79.
Arms : — A chevron between three caps, impaling three lions
rampant.
From Sandford Registers : —
1744. Mr. Harthory Brudenell buried Feb. 24.
1749. Gulielmus = Brudenell filius Gulielmi Barton cappelani
et Francisce uxoris natus est 25 May, bapt: 29 June.
William Barton, chaplain of Sandford, 1741 to 1771,
probably married Frances, daughter of Mr. Plarthory
Brudenell, hence his burial at Sandford.
Is anything known of^i^ny^^ ^ ^^ ^^^ A. J. P. S.
83. " Clyst " AND "Week" Place-Names (IX, p. 20,
par. 18; p. 43, pars. 39, 40). — There are two distinct 'wicks'
in English, of diflferent meaning and derivation. One is the
Anglo-Saxon word ' wick ' or ' week,' related to Lat. victis and
Gr. oikos. This ' wick ' means a habitation or village, and
is a very common termination of place-names in Devon.
The other is a Norse word, meaning a creek or inlet. The
wicking or viking (a word which has nothing to do with
' king ') was a sea-rover who frequented the wicks or creeks
of a coast for hiding in, while the lawful trader cast anchor
in the ' hafn ' (haven or harbour). But as these estuaries
were in early days the chief source of the salt-supply, the
word wick, in its alternative form ' wich,' came to mean a
saltern, salt-marsh or salt-pit, as in Sandwich ; and the
meaning was thence extended to inland salt-works, as
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Droitwich. There were plenty of salterns in Devon (see
Domesday), but so far as I know there is no place-name
ending in wich, due to the fact that the Norsemen made
few (if indeed any) permanent settlements in the county.
According to Skeat, the two words have no etymological
connection. A. C.
84. Norman Surnames. — I notice that in the lists of
rectors to be seen in various churches the Norman prefix
" de " does not occur after the latter part of the 14th century.
What is the explanation of this ? Fred Day.
85. Ayer of Fen Ottery (p. 37, par. 37). — I am
indebted to the kindness of Mr. O. A. R. Murray, C.B., for
a correction and additions to this Pedigree.
From the extract from Chancery Proceedings, given below,
it appears that Cicill Marshall was mt the daughter of John
Marshall and Grace Stoford, but by his first wife — Amy,
daughter of John Molford of South Molten, Esq. — Mar. Lie,
3 Feby., 162^.
Chancery Proceedings Before 17 14, Bridges,
Bundle 27, No. 13.
November, 1656. Complaint of Richard '^Bateson of Chulmleigh
Gent and Dorothy his wife. — That John Marshall of
{sic) in Co. Devon about 30 years since married Amy Molford
one of the daughters of John Molford Esq'^ dec'* by whom
he had issue only one daughter called Cislly who since the
tyme of her birth hath bine both deaf and dumb. That
about 20 years since the s'' Amy wife of John Marshall died
and shortly afterwards the s"* John Marshall repaired to Cisly
Molford relict of s^ John Molford and asked her, Susan
Molford her daughter and your oratrix Dorothy, likewise
daughter of Cisly Molford, to give entertainment to his
s^ daughter Cislly, faithfully promising to give such just
satisfacion as should by them be thought fit. That the
s** Cicely Molford died about 14 or 15 years since, and as
the father Marshall made no provision for his daughter, the
s** Susan Molford and s^ Dorothy continued to maintain the
• Richard Bateson was son of Richard Baitson, Rector of Chulm-
leigh, and his wife Thomasine Molford (see Vivian').
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said Cicely Marshall. That about the year 1645 the s"* Susan
Molford falling very sick and having very much wasted her
estate in the maintenance of the s'^ Ciselly declared her desire
of settling that small estate she had left on her two sisters
Elizabeth Northly and your oratrix Dorothy (being all the
sisters she had), but fearing lest the s*^ Cicely Marshall should
be lost by her father as formerly, she procured a grant of an
annuity from your orator Richard Bateson of ^10 a year
to the s** Cicely for life with some limitations mentioned in the
s"^ deed. That it was often declared by the s"* Susan Molford
that although the deed might charge the s*^ Richard Bateson's
lands, yet it was the intention that as soon as John Marshall
or any other friend should provide for his s'' daughter, the
said annuity should cease, but this was kept private lest her
father John Marshall should take any other advantage hereby.
That all the consideration which your orator Richard Bateson
had for raising the s*^ annuity was ;^ioo given by the s** Susan
Molford to your oratrix Dorothy, having given them very
little beside, and in all much less than her sister Elizabeth
Northly who had £100 given by the s'* Susan Molford
without any deduction. That after the death of Susan
Molford the s"* Cicely remamed some time with your orators,
but at last the s**' John Marshall did take home his s"* daughter,
but not wholly as she came to them once every year at least
and stayed a quarter of a year at least and your orators
spent on her at least £'^0. That about a year and a half
since the s'* Cicely was married to John Aire of Atherington
who had with her a porcon of ifsoo. That the s** John Aire
with Balthazar Aire are taking action to recover the pretended
arrears of the s** annuity, which annuity is said to have been
assigned to the s** John and Cisly Ayre to the s** Balthazar.
Answer of Balthazar Ayre, John Ayre {and Cisley his wife)
taken before Phillippe Wyot at Barnstaple, 18 J any., 1656.
(Note by Wyot : — " The Answeare of the other defendant
Cisley was forborne by me to be taken in regard it appears
to me that shee is deaf and dumbe."). That the s'' Susan
Molford did in consideration of ;^ioo paid to the s'' Richard
Bateson obtain an annuity of ;^io a year for 99 years if the
s^ Cicely Marshall should so long live, issuing out of the
s*^ Richard Bateson's demesne lands called Cadbury, and that
there was no such understanding as is alleged by him.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 95
John Molford, of South Molton, gent., by his will, dated
7 Oct. I, K. Charles, proved P.C.C., 23 Nov., 1626 (119 Hele),
gives " to Cicill Marshall, my daughter Amy Marshall's
daughter, ^5 ; and to my daughter Amy Marshall £^y His
son-in-law, John Marshall, an overseer.
Susan Molford, of Chumleigh, single woman, by her will
dated 11 April, 1646, proved 23 Sept. 1659, gives a ring and
other bequests to her cousin Sicil Marshall, and also pro-
vides *' My brother Baitson is to deduct from all moneys
due from him to me upon specialty such money as is due
to him for mine own and Cecil Marshall's dyett."
From Atherington Registers : —
1625. Balthazar Ayre, gent, and Mrs. Mary Slowly, married
17 August.
1655. Marshall, son of Mr. John Ayre, and Susan (sic) his
wyff, born 20 September.
1658. Mary, daughter of Mr. John Ayer, and Cicill, born
8 February.
From Braunton Registers : —
171 1. Martiall Ayres, of Ven Ottery, Esqre., and Mrs.
Elizabeth Luttrell, married September 13.
From Ottery St. Mary Registers : —
1690. Mary, daughter of Mr. Charles Baker, and Thomasin,
baptized December 27.
Charles Baker, of Ottery St. Mary, gent., will dated
23 August, 1724, proved 2 November, 1724, P.C.C, 239
Botton), bequeaths " to my wife, my daughters, Mary Ayer
and Judith Baker, and my grandchildren, Elizabeth and
Charles Ayer, £^0 between them for mourning ; to my
granddaughter, Elizabeth Ayer, 20 guineas at 21 ; to my
grandson, Charles Ayer, ;^ioo at 16."
In the will of Matthew Mundy (page 43), the name Selfe
is correct and not Sesse as suggested in the footnote.
A, J. P. Skinner.
86. Origin of the Surname Linthicum. — Tradition
has it that the name Linthicum originated in either Corn-
wall or in Wales. The original name was spelled, I believe,
" Llynthicomb." The first emigrant, Thomas Linthicum,
reached America in 1658, and the old records show various
spellings in addition to the one named — Lyn, Lin, etc., with
96 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
" comb " as the termination and " combe." If your readers
know of any names corresponding with the present or former
spelling, I shall be glad if they will be so good as to com-
municate any information through your columns.
C. F. Linthicum.
87. Hayman Family. — I should be glad to hear of any
genealogical notes made or pedigrees constructed of the
Hayman family, of Devon.
I believe some members of the family claim to be descended
from Fitz Hamon, of the Conqueror's entourage. But did
he not leave an only child, a daughter, whose children are
also known and who did not bear Fitz Hamon's name ?
^^p-^17- J. H. R.
88. Churchill Family. — Is there any pedigree in exist-
ence of the Churchills of Rockbeare ? According to Burke's
Peerage, the Dukes of Marlborough are descended from them.
F. E. W. Langdon.
89. KiRKHAM AND WeSTOFER FAMILIES (VII., p. 257,
par. 184.) — Tuckett's Pedigree of Kirkham (p. i8) states that
James Kirkham (p. 25S) married *' Mary, natural daughter
of Sir Wm. Page, of Hereford."
The impalement on the large shield at the top of the
monument (p. 262) is — Lozengy or and azure a bordure gules,
for Ellacott and not Willoughby.
Marriage Licence at the Faculty Office of the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, London (Harleian Society) : —
1572, Nov. 20. William Westofer and Alice Younge
(p. 258.)
Marriage Licence, Exeter : —
1644, March 29. Humphry Bidgood, of the City of
Exeter, gen., and Mary Eedes, of Honyton (p. 259.)
Clement Drake (p. 267) married Elizabeth, daughter of
Thomas Spiller and his wife Betty, daughter of James
Hurley, Vicar of St. James's, Taunton. Thomas
Spiller, of Taunton St. Mary, and Betty Hurly were
married at Bishops Hull, 2 Sept., 1767.
Wilton Registers: —
1790, Sept. 13. William Drake and Elizabeth Charity
CoUard were married (p. 267.) A.J. P.S.
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go. Armorial Bearings at "The Abbot's Lodge,"
The Close, Exeter (IX., p. 28, par 21,) — An opportunity
having occurred for photographing the armorial bearings in
the Abbot's Lodge, mentioned by Miss Lega-Weekes
(Studies in the Topography of The Close, Exeter, p. 145), some
further notes on these shields have been made and sub-
mitted, with the photographs, to Mr. F. Were, who has
kindly added corrections and additions to them. To save
repetition Mr. Were's initials have been placed against
those notes for which he is responsible.
Miss Lega-Weekes writes (the following is an abridg-
ment of her paragraph) : — " The principal apartment on the
first floor (of the Abbot's Lodge) had formerly a lofty semi-
octagonal ceiling with heraldic decoration in the plaster of
the spandrils at either end, above the springing of the roof —
these decorations still remain in the western gable and
opposite end of the loft between the modern ceiling and
the tiled roof." Such is the position of these heraldic
decorations, which consist at the eastern side of family
arms, and on the west of Royal arms.
The family arms comprise three coats. In the centre
the arms and quarterings of Portman, and on either side
those of Rolle.
Portman of Orchard Portman, Somerset, a shield of
eight quarterings :
1. Or, a fleur-de-lis azure. Portman.
2. Azure, 3 Tau crosses or. Crosse.
William Portman (15th cent.) m. Alice, d. and h.
of John Crosse, co. Somerset. ''''
3. Azure, a chevron argent bet. 3 pears or. Orchard.
Walter Portman (son of WiUiam), (d. 1474), m.
Christian, d. and h. of William Orchard.*
4. Argent, a chevron engrailed bet. 3 roses gules. Gilbert.
Sir William Portman, Bart., Lord Chief Justice,
m. Ehzabeth, d. and h. of John Gilbert and
Christian Baskett (F. W.)
5. Argent, 3 trivets sable. Trevett.
WilHam Orchard m co-heir of Thomas
Trevett.*
* Somerset Visitations, p. 126.
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6. Argent, a chevron ermine between 3 moors heads couped{?)
Gilbert (?) (F. \V.)
J. ... a fess ermine bet. 3 annulets. Gilbert (F. W.)
8. Portman, as previously blazoned.
Of No. 6 Mr. F. Were observes: "Armories do give the
above as Gilbert, but if this is what is intended it is a very
poor blazon, as the heads are in profile and decidedly
wreathed ; also the marshalling is poor, as it ought to come
before Trevett, instead of, apparently, being brought in by
Trevett." No. 7 Mr. Were identifies with a coat of Gilbert
given in the armories as Argent on a fess between 3 annulets
gules as many ermine spots of the field.
To the left of this a shield displays the arms of Rolle
impaling W^atts of London in a shield of six quarterings : —
Or, on a fess dancette azure between 3 billets of the second,
each charged with a lion rampant of the field, 3 bezants, Rolle —
impaling : —
Quarterly of six.
1. Argent y on a fess vert bet. 3 eagles' heads erased sable
as many crosses sarcelly of the first. Watts of
London (F. W.)
The first wife of Sir Henry Rolle of Stevenstone
(d. 1625) was Elizabeth, d. and h. of Roger Watts
of London.
2. Azure, 3 broad arrows or, feathered argent, on chief of
the second as many men's heads side faced ppr. crined
sable (?) (F. W.) Watts of CALLnicroN-, Somerset.
3. A chevron between 3 mermaids. W^'Bbery (F. W.)
4. A lion rampant.
5. Argent on a bend gules bet. 3 pellets as many stvans of
the field. Clark of Halberton.
6. Watts of London, as No. i.
Either the blazoning of No. 2 is a very faulty repre-
sentation or else it is intended for another coat. Burke
gives three broad arrows, 2 and i, with a chief, for Watts of
Callington ; here there is certainly a fess between 6 arrows
placed bend-wise, suggestive of a flight of arrows.
Mr. Were suggests that No. 3 is Sable a chevron between
3 mermaids argent, for Wybbery, not Gough, as given in
Carew's Scroll of Arms, No. 62, with the same tinctures.
Of these last three quarterings he remarks, " I cannot find
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Watts' connection or how brought in." So this impalement
still remains a puzzle for some of our other heraldic con-
tributors.
The third shield on this wall offers no difficulties, it
displays the arms of RoUe impaling : — Azure a bend argent
cotized or, a crescent for difference. Fortescue. Sir Henry
Rolle (above mentioned) married as his second wife Joan,
daughter of John Fortescue of Fallapit.
The centre of the west wall is decorated with a large
shield of the Royal Arms of Queen Elizabeth, displaying
France and England quarterly, surrounded by the garter
and surmounted by a crown. The supporters are a crowned
lion and a dragon ; they rest on the ribbon of the motto
" Dieu et mon Droit," which has a tudor rose between
every word. At the top are the initials " E.R." and at the
base the date 1602. On either side of this shield are a
tudor rose and a fleur-de-lis each surmounted with a crown ;
the rose has four leaves on the stem, and it is worth noting
that the fleur-de-lis rises on a stem out of a coronal of
lily leaves, balancing it with the other device. This is an
unusual representation of the emblem.
For the sake of clearness the blazoning of the arms has
been given in these notes without the confusion of enclosing
each word in critical brackets. But no colouring now appears
on the arms under the roof, and it is the opinion of those who
have examined them closely that they never were coloured.
We may conclude from the arms and date that these
shields were placed as decorations to the room by Sir Henry
Rolle of Stevenstone in 1602. Th. Grace.
gi. Is there Coal in Devonshire? (VH., p. 57;
par. 33). — Turning over the pages of the Western Miscellany I
came across (p. 284) the following advertisement quoted frum
Andrew Brice's Old Exeter Journal, or the Weekly Advertiser,
Exon, Friday, August i6th, 1754. Although it does not
answer the query, it throws some light on the previous
" fruitless attempts to discover this useful article in Devon,"
and is, I think, of sufficient interest to be reprinted : —
" The Proprietors of the Work, in carrying on the present Search
after Coal near the City of Exeter, were quite sensible of what Advan-
tage such a Discovery would be to this Age, as well as to Posterity ;
which did induce them to begin this laudable Undertaking. But, after
100 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
Twelve Months' Tryal, the large Sums they had expended as private
Adventurers did somewhat deter them from so vigorously pursuing
such a favourable Prospect of Success, as perhaps some may think
might have been done. But if they look back on the last long cold
Winter, they will find, that in Hail, Kain, Frost, or Snow, the Work
was carried on both Day and Night ; which did not show a Want of
Spirit in either Adventurers or Workmen, However, the Proprietors,
having taken into consideration the Arguments and Proposals publish'd
in Mr. Brice's Journal, and finding the Inhabitants of both City and
Country adjacent thereupon ready and willing to aid and assist in
raising up this valuable Fossil, which, if obtain'd, can be deem'd no
less than A Triple Blessing: Therefore, the Proprietors do hereby
acknowledge, they are willing to accept the Offer made them, in the
Manner and Form which has been set forth, viz. :—
" For every Guinea raised by Subscription, they will, in Return,
oblige themselves to render Four Quarters of Coal (as soon as it is in
their Power so to do) containing the same Measure as at the Kay of
Exon ; and so in proportion to every other sum subscribed.
"And the Proprietors do hereby also acquaint the Public, That a
Subscription is already opened, and th:it Books are placed at Moll's
and Swale's Cnffee-houses, and also at Mr. Barnabas Thorn's, Book-
seller, in the Churchyard, Exon ; and they also give Notice, That the
said Mr. Barnabas Thorn has accepted of the office of Treasurer for
that Purpose.
" And that, upon Receipt of the Subscription Money he will
deliver to each Subscriber a Ticket, which shall intitle the Bearer to
the Proportion of Coal Subscribed for.
" And further : Th* Proprietors do consent, and agree, that every
Subscriber shall have their Quota of Coal according to their Subscrip-
tion, previous to any Sale whatever. And to convince, and fully satisfy,
the Subscribers that the Money raised by Subscription shall be used,
and whollv expended, in their future search, they do also consent, that
every Gentleman subscribing the sum of Five Guineas (whose Propor-
tion of Coal will be Twenty Quarters) shall have Access to, and free
Liberty, weekly, or monthly, to inspect and audit their Papers and
Books of Account.
By Order of the Proprietors,
T. Taylor,
Clerk to the Company."
Another note on this subject appeared in the Western
Antiquary, Vol. V., p. 236. It is there stated that in reference
to a correspondent's enquiry as to the truth of a rumour
that coal may be found at Stoke Hill, near Exeter, the
editor of the Western Times reproduced the following, which
appeared in his columns fourteen years previously. The
cropping up of this question at long intervals is somewhat
curious. Probably it arises from the discovery of black
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. ioi
coal-like masses in the shale rock of which Stoke Hill is
composed : —
"To the Editor of The Daily Western Times.
"Dear Sir, — The remarks in your leading article of Tuesday last
on the supposed discovery of coal beds in the neighbourhood of this
city by the late Mr. Thomas Northmore, fifty years ago, call to mind
a still earlier project of the same kind, mentioned in the following
singular advertisement which appeared in Andrew Brice's Old Exeter
Journal, or the Weekly Advertiser, Exon, Friday, August the i6th, 1754.
" Some of your correspondents who possess the immediately pre-
ceding numbers of the journal, may perhaps be able to show whether
the locality of the older works is identical with the scene of Mr.
Northmore's explorations. It will be seen that the advertisement affords
curious evidence of the ingenuity of speculators in drawing funds
from a credulous public, in the generation which arose after the
bursting of the South Sea Bubble.
Yours faithfully,
Robert Dymond.
Exeter, 26th September, 1872."
Then follows the same advertisement as that previously
quoted from the Western Miscellany.
Is anything more known of the Com.pany or of the
locality of the mine ?
R. Pearse Chore.
92. AsHTON Parish Church of St. John the Baptist.
— The visit in August of the Teign Naturalists' Field Club
and the Exeter Diocesan Architectural and Archaeological
Society has once more drawn attention to a church which
especially interested the Royal Archaeological Institute on
the occasion of their visit to Devonshire in 1913.
A few points to which, as President of the Teign
Naturalists, I was privileged to draw attention may perhaps
serve to elicit further information from readers of Devon and
Cornwall Notes and Queries.
The subject was well described and illustrated by Mr.
Maxwell Adams in 1899 {Trans. D. Assoc, vol. xxxi., pp. 1&5-
198), and has been included in a review of the churches
of the Deanery of Kenn by Miss Beatrix F. Cresswell.
Sepulchral slab of Purbeck stone in the south wall of Chancel. —
This, the most ancient monument in the church, is mentioned
by Mr. Maxwell Adams (p. 191) as having been discovered
during the incumbency of Dr. Richard Dennet (1881-1897).
It was half exposed and a stone shelf fixed in front to serve
102 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
the purpose of sedilia. Miss Cresswell does not mention
this link with the past history of Ashton.
The stone slab is 6 ft. 4 ins. in length and bears on the
surface the remains of a cross raised on the stone, and still
showing at the east end the base or foot formed of three
steps on either side.
This form of coffin-shaped tomb cover is to be found in
single examples in several of the churches of Devon. One
lies in the chancel of Brixham, whence it was removed from
the present site of the organ in the south transept ; another
lies on the north side of the exterior of Kingswear Church.
A well known example is in the south wall of Haccombe
Church, and Mr. W. H. H, Rogers illustrates examples at
Crediton, Cullompton, Alwington and Colebrooke {Sepulchral
Effigies, Plate xix), which he assigns to a period 1220- 1320.
It was suggested by Dr. Oliver that the cross at Haccombe
" not unlikely covers the remains of the Rev. Robert de Pyl,"
one of the benefactors of the Archpresbytery of Haccombe,
who was living at the time Bishop Grandisson granted the
foundation charter, and owing to the similarity of design and
the presence of the cross these tombs have very generally
been ascribed to early incumbents of the churches in which
they are found.
The use of Purbeck marble for sepulchral coverings was,
generally speaking, limited to a short period, and gave way
to the more easily worked stone from the quarries of Bere.
The earliest monument of this material in Exeter Cathedral
is that showing the effigy of Bishop Bartholomew, buried in
1186; the latest of which I have knowledge is the plain
slab with inscription (no cross), which formerly covered the
remains of Bishop William Briwere, laid A.D. 1244 in the
clioir; the stone is now in the north aisle. Any such sepul-
chral stone, showing the characteristic shells of the paludina
carinifera or thicker iinio beds of the Purbeck marble, found
in this district to-day may be regarded as dating from the
early half of the thirteenth century.
At this period the status of the parish priest was so
low — requiring, as we learn from the register of Bishop
Bronescombe, the interference of the authority of the diocesan
to secure in many cases a bare pittance — that it is not even
probable that such exceptional and costly tomb covers would
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be used for any but distinguished and wealthy personages.
It is also noteworthy that they are found singly ; perhaps
only at Crediton are two such stones to be found in the one
church.
In the chantry chapel built by Thomas de Bytton
(Bishop of Exeter 1292-1307), over the remains of his an-
cestors in the parish church of his native place, Bytton, in
Somerset, midway between Bristol and Bath, are not only
the tombs of the Bishop's parents, Walter and Matilda de
Bitton, but also what are considered to be two of the finest
mediaeval sepulchral slabs in the country. They are of
Purbeck marble, and are thought to cover Robert de Bitton
(grandfather of the Bishop), represented by the full length
effigy of a crusader bearing on a shield the arms of De
Bytton ; and adjoining, another slab, similar in design to
those we are considering, exactly like the broken one in
Crediton Church, but fortunately with an inscription record-
ing the name Emmota de Hastings, probably grandparent
of Bishop Bytton. In the latter connection some antiquaries
seem to find difficulty, but until the first decades of the
thirteenth century, if not later, it was customary for dames
of noble birth to retain their father's title even after marriage.
We have, therefore, in this instance, distinct evidence
that these Purbeck stone slabs with full length cross formed
the tomb covers of women of importance, and, having regard
to the restricted period during which this form of monument
was used, I suggest the following explanation : —
In 1228 Bishop William Briwere of Exeter accompanied
Peter de Rupibus, Bishop of Winchester, on crusade to the
Holy Land, and was absent from his diocese for nearly five
years. He was doubtless accompanied by representatives of
some of the best families in the county, many of whom
would lose their lives in the enterprise. This special design
of tomb cover, I suggest, marks the last resting place of
the wives, more especially the widows of those knights who
lost their lives when on crusade.
In the case of Ashton I suggest that Robert, son of
Herveius de Helion, who was in possession of Ashton on the
21st June, 1220 {Devon Feet of Fines, No. 128), accompanied
Bishop Briwere on crusade in 1228 and did not return in
1233. On the gth May, and again on 12th June, 1244, we
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find another Robert de Helyun establishing his claim to the
family property {ibidem, Nos. 407 and 374), which property,
including Ashton, passed by right of marriage to Ferrers,
Prouz and Chiidleigh. Robert de Helyun, junior, therefore
died sine prole, perhaps was never married, and I believe
that the Purbeck marble slab in Ashton Church covers the
remains of the widow of Robert de Helion, crusader. The
chancel may have been added just previous to her death
as memorial to her husband, and this place of sepulture
in the thickness of the wall then prepared, in which case the
re-dedication of the altar was probably performed by Bishop
Wm. Briwere before his death in 1244. In any case Dr.
Oliver is in error in ascribing the dedication to St. Nectanus
on the 22nd Nov., 1259 {Mon. Dice. Exon, f. 445). On that
date Bishop Bronescombe dedicated the church of Aiscunibe,
i.e., Ashcombe {Reg. Bp. Bronescombe, f. 67). Ashton Church,
as the figure placed in the adjoining panel to the Virgin
and Child in the door of the rood screen perhaps bears
witness, was dedicated to St. John the Baptist.
Ashton Manor transferred by marriage from the De Helion to
the Le Pruz family. — In volume v. of D. N. S- Q., f. 151,
Sir Fulk Ferrers, of Throwleigh, is shown to have married
Alice, daughter of Sir Hervey de Helion, of Ashton. The
Rev. O. J. Reichel repeats this in his summary of the owner-
ship of Ashton Manor {Trans. D. Assoc, vol. xlvii,, f, 216).
From the evidence afforded by the Feet of Fines, Fulk, son
of Gilbert de Ferrers, was married to Lucy, daughter of
Richard Folyot {Devon Feet of Fines, Nos. 345 and 543), and
both were living on loth May, 1254, when they are defendants
to a claim made by William le Pruz, of Gidleigh, as to a
moiety of one knight's fee and the advowson of Throwleigh
{ibidem).
If Fulk de Ferrers married Alice, the daughter of
Herveius de Helion (Herveius died ante 1220), it must have
been either subsequent to 1254, when Alice would be at least
35 years of age, or, what is more probably the explanation,
the marriage with Lucy Foliot, which apparently took place
in 1238 {Devon Fine, No. 345, being the marriage settlement),
was a second marriage of Fulk de Ferrers, he having first
married the only daughter of de Helion.
Presumably by the first marriage Fulk de Ferrers had
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an only child, Alice, on whom half of Throwleigh was settled
before Fulk de Ferrers married again, and although she is not
mentioned by name in the Fine of 1254 (No. 543), this judicial
record was doubtless the confirmation of his wife's marriage
grant which William le Pruz sought in Court at the hands
of Fulk de Ferrers and of his second wife who is specially
mentioned.
The interesting point is that Ferrers never held Ashton,
but that the manor passed direct from Robert de Helion,
who held in 1244, to his cousin Alice (de Ferrers), who was
then married to William le Pruz, and whose niece Thomasine
(the daughter of Richard le Pruz) brought the manor to
John, son of John Chudleigh of Chudleigh, about the year
1320.
Thus for 677 years the manor of Ashton was only held
by three families, of which that of le Pruz was in possession
only for one generation, de Helion holding for 186 years
(1068-1254), and Chudleigh for 425 years (1320-1745).
Connection between Ashton and Cockington. — In the third
window (second upper light) in the north wall of Ashton
Church, repeated on the second of twenty-four shields record-
ing the descent of the Chudleighs, and emblazoned on the
wooden memorial tablet to the memory of Sir George
Chudleigh, Bart., who died 15th January, 1657, is the follow-
ing heraldic composition interpreted by Mr. Maxwell Adams
as Chudleigh impaling quarterly — (i and 4) Arg. a chev.
sa. between 3 cocks sa. (Cockworthy) ; (2 and 3) Sa. a chev. ^-^ p . ly/
ermine between 3 barnacle birds arg. (Wyke).
I suggest that the arms quarterly are those of de
Cockington (i and 4) Arg. a chevron azure between 3 cocks
gules [Western Armory, f. 80), and de Compton of Compton
Castle (2 and 3) Sa. a chevron ermine between 3 shovellers arg.
[Lysons, f. clxiv).
This combination explains the parentage of John, son of
John Chudleigh, who married Thomasine the heiress of
Ashton. The record of Visitations of the County of Devon
(f. 189), only gives the father as John Chidlegh, but omits
whom he married. Lysons state that heiresses of the family
of Compton of Compton Castle married temp. Edw. III.
Gilbert and Chiderlegh. The birds as represented are more
like ducks than geese, and I suggest that this heraldry in
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Ashton Church corrects Messrs. Lysons' statement in that
one of the daughters of Compton married Roger de
Cockington and their daughter married John Chudleigh of
Chudleigh, father of the first John Chudleigh of Ashton.
This connection between Ashton and Cockington is con-
firmed in a remarkable manner by the architecture of the
churches, the tower of Ashton Church being apparently built
to the plan of that of Cockington.
In describing the evolution of the parish church of
Cockington two years ago, and as stated in tlie descriptive
pamphlet to be obtained in the church, I gave my reasons
for regarding the tower as the work of the Canons of Torre
Abbey soon after their acquisition of the " capella " in 1236
on perpetual lease from the Abbey of St. Dogmaels. I also
attributed the addition of the first three bays of the north
aisle to Roger de Cockington.
As I read this evidence of heraldry and architecture, we
learn for the first time that Roger de Cockington married
a daughter of Compton of Compton, and that their daughter
married John Chudleigh of Chudleigh ; their son was
affianced to Thomasine, daughter of Sir Richard Prouse, and
heiress through her uncle William le Pruz's wife (Alice
Ferrers) of the estate of Ashton. Wishing to consummate
the union of his son with such an heiress by gift to the
mother church, John Chudleigh built the tower of Ashton
Church about the year 1320, if not earlier, when, following
the custom of the times, the affiancement of his son took place.
Remembering, perhaps, in her childhood, the construction of
the Cockington tower with diagonal buttresses, the first
probably thus built in this county, and doubtless admired
then as it is to-day, the daughter of Roger de Cockington
would not improbably use her influence with her husband,
John Chudleigh, to construct the new tower at Ashton
after the design of the Canons of Torre. Comparatively
very few of the early towers in the county have angle
buttresses. Both William de Comptone and Roger de
Cockington witnessed deeds for Abbot Richard (22nd May,
1270 — circa 1301), and in 1340 Johann de Chuddeleghe is
charged to assist Abbot Simon (de Plympton, 15th August,
1330-1345), of Torre Abbey, to collect the tax on fleeces
(^Cartulary of Torre Abbey).
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Early Alliance of the Chudleighs. — If the second shield on
the memorial tablet thus shows the connection by marriage
between John Chudleigh of Chudleigh and the family of
de Cockington, the first shield may reasonably be expected
to represent an earlier alliance, perhaps the grandfather of
the first Chudleigh of Ashton.
The memorial tablet, as also the fourth light in the third
window, show Chudleigh impaling — Or, 3 negroes^ heads sable,
and in the second instance, Arg. 3 moors' heads couped sa.
These arms, thus read by Mr. Maxwell Adams, are, on the
evidence of the word Canens painted under the half shield
in the window, thought to signify the family Canynges.
Historians of Devon do not mention this name. Of those
families who bore the moors' heads on their escutcheon,
namely, Callard, Holcombe, Tanner, Trethek, Trevernves,
perhaps Callard, a family which settled at Burrington, Ply-
mouth, may be intended, but the subordinary gyronny of six
(unless represented by the two irregular lines in the glass
separating the larger head) is omitted. The name Canens,
as shown by other instances on the glass, is not reliable.
Perhaps some reader of D. &= C. N. &> Q. can explain.
Font of Ashton Church. — The Norman font of the de
Helions was doubtless thrown out by Sir James Chudleigh,
who, according to the escutcheons, placed the present
octagonal substitute in the church on the occasion of his
first marriage, circa 1476, with Margaret, daughter of William
Stourton. The font records his second marriage with
Margaret, daughter of John Tremayne, widow of Oliver
Wise, but there was no room on the four sides with shields
for the record of his third marriage with Christian, daughter
of Sir Nicholas (not John) Powlet, nor of his fourth
marriage with Jane, daughter and heiress of Sir James
Nonant.
It is noteworthy that this font marks another fashion of
the period in which it was erected, as the more elaborately
worked bowl at Cockington was made for Robert Cary on
the occasion of his first marriage on the 2nd March (as I
believe the date on the font represents) ; the missing figures
of the year should read 1485 or soon after.
Cannot the discarded Norman font at Ashton be found ?
I Hugh R. Watkin.
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93. Teigngrace Church (IX., p. 74, par. 75.) — In
answer to Mr. Windeatt, I can suggest three different
explanations of Teigngrace Church being described in 1410
as "the parochial church of the Apostles Peter and Paul"
{Stafford, 213) and in 1782 as "St. Mary's Church, Teign-
grace." But first I must point out that in stating that
" if a new church is built upon the old foundations of a
church already consecrated, no further consecration of that
church is permissible," Mr. Windeat has omitted the proviso
^^ provided that the altar is not removed.''
The importance of this proviso will be seen by reference
to the letter of Pope Vigilius, a.d. 538, which is generally
cited as the authority for consecration (Ap. Gratian III.,
Dist. I., c. 24), which shews the three things deemed
necessary for consecration, viz. (i) the sprinkling with
exorcised water; (2) enclosing a relic or the Eucharist
itself under the altar and (3) the celebration of the Eucharist.
It runs : —
" The fabric of any church if destroyed must be rein-
stated, and if in that place the solemnity of consecration
has to be repeated in which there were no shrines
[sanctitaria) [before], no harm will be done [nihil judicamus
officere) if no more than exorcised water be sprinkled
over it, because the consecration of every church in
which a pledge of the Holy Ghost is not deposited [the
relic of a saint being such a pledge] is we know effected
solely by the celebration of masses. Therefore, should
a courthouse (basilica) of the saints be rebuilt from the
foundation without the altar being disturbed undoubtedly
the hallowing of a perfect consecration will be completed
when mass is solemnly celebrated."
This letter clearly contemplates the consecration of an
adjoining altar-chapel or shrine, in which case no harm will
be done if the first part of the service (the sprinkling of
exorcised water) is extended to the old part when rebuilt^
provided the altar under which the relics are preserved has
not been disturbed. Canon 2 of the Council of Chelsea
in 816 lays it down: —
" Where a church is built, let it be consecrated by
the bishop of the diocese. Let the water be blessed and
sprinkled by himself. . . . Afterwards let the Eucharist
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 109
consecrated by the bishop in the same ministration be
laid up in the same repository with the other relics in
the court house (basilica) ; and if he can find no other
relics, this may serve as well. . . . And we charge
every bishop that he have it written on the walls of the
house of prayer, as also on the altars, to what saints
both of them are dedicated."
The first alternative explanation which I suggest is that
a new chapel with a side-altar may have been added to
Teigngrace Church after 1410, or as happened in some cases,
that whilst the old church was retained as a side chapel, a
more extensive chancel and nave were erected with a high
altar in honour of St. Mary. This suggestion is ruled out
by the statement that so far as is known at present no notice
can be found in the Episcopal Registers of the consecration
of a new church or altar in honour of St. Mary at Teigngrace.
But oddly enough only two records of institutions to the
rectory can be found in those registers although there must
have been many more, one in 1350 when Bishop Grandisson
collated to it (Grandisson, 1405), the other in 1410, 1412
and 1414, when John Prestcote presented (Stafford, 213);
and there is also a record of 40 days' indulgence granted in
January, 1435, to all contributors to the repairs and upkeep
of the bridge at Teynbrigge (Lacy, 618).
The second alternative is that " Church of the Apostles
Peter and Paul" refers to the patronal saint and "Church /^'^'f' 'r
of St. Mary" to the dedication saint of the church. The
great fault in Miss Arnold Foster's book on Church Dedica-
tions is that she fails to distinguish between the feast of the
patronal saint and the feast of the dedication saint. Arch-
bishop Islep in laying down the rule in 1362 as to what feasts
are to be kept by all persons, names two, viz, : " the solemnity
of the dedication of ever}' parish church" and " of the saints
to whom every parish church is dedicated " (the patronal
saint). It is therefore quite possible and indeed most likely
that SS. Peter and Paul were the patron saints of the church
and that the church was actually dedicated on one of the
festivals of St. Mary.
The third alternative is that the scribe of the Bishop's
registry in carelessness called the Church of the Apostles
Peter and Paul the Church of St. Mary because at the time
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he was ignorant of the dedication saint. Certainly the church
of Sparsholt in Berks was the Church of the Holy Rood
and the tradition in 1876 was still so strong that the feast was
always observed on the Sunday next following Holy Rood
finding day, the 3rd of May old style, now the 13th May.
Yet in ecclesiastical proceedings in the 14th century it was
spoken of as the Church of St. Mary. We also meet with the
Church of the Holy Cross at Crediton of the canons of St.
Mary or of St. Gregory which has given rise to Crediton
Church being called by Leland the Church of St. Gregory,
{Devon &> Cornwall Notes & Queries, ix., Appen. 75), and in older
documents the Church of St. INIary. And stranger still we
find in grants of property, Tor Abbey sometimes described as
the Church of St. Saviour and at other times as the Church of
the Holy Trinity (Oliver, Mon., 186,) shewing that scribes were
not very particular as to the saint placed in charge. There
seems to have been a fashion in these things. Before the
Reformation to describe a church as the Church of St. Mary
was equivalent to dubbing a man esquire. In Hanoverian
times the saints and especially St. Mary were taboo. We can
therefore readily understand how both rector and patron in
1787 preferred, even if they knew better, to speak of Teign-
grace Church as the Church of the Holy Trinity.
iju. r>.i7^. Oswald J. Reichel.
94. Newnham. — The members of the Devonshire Associa-
tion, at their recent meeting at Plymouth, made an afternoon
excursion to Plympton Castle, Newnham Park (where they
were kindly entertained by Major and Mrs. Strode) and old
Newnham. At Newnham Park, divers opinions were
expressed as to the date of the building. Lysons states it was
built upon the adjoining manor of Loughtor about 1700, being
raised on the foundations (or rather on the first floor level)
of Loughtor, which now forms the basement of the existing
house. Loughtor appears to have been built by Philip
Courtenay, c. 1514, who was buried in Plympton St. Mary
Church. It came to the Strodes by marriage of an heiress
of Courtenay.
Kelly's Devon states " Old Newnham, the ancestral seat
of the Strode family was the residence of Simon de
Plympton in the time of Edward I., and a grandson of his
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took the name of de Newnham. It is now a farmhouse.
Newnham Park stands on the site of the old manor house
of Loughtor, formerly the seat of the Courtenays."
In Plympton St. Mary Church are two recumbent effigies of
knights in plate armour : that in the north aisle representing
Richard Stroode, of Newnham, Esq., c. 1464, the other in
south aisle, Philip Courtenay, of Loughtor, c. 1514.
The old house of Newnham, as it now stands, seems
to have been largely rebuilt by the Richard Stroode who died
1464. The house in his day was probably a quadrangle, with
a small gatehouse (such as formerly existed at Bradley Manor,
Newton Abbot), opposite the hall door, and behind, a second
quadrangle of stables, offices and form buildings. Of the first
quadrangle, the centre wing with the hall and the south wing
remain ; and the kitchen appears to be part of the second
courtyard lying behind the hall. The house is built of the
country stone with granite for doorways, windows, mullions,
fireplaces, chimneys, etc.
The hall is now ceiled over and divided into two floors ;
the upper floor on a level with the great window transom,
alternate granite muUions having been removed from the
lower half and wood sash windows inserted. In the upper
half. In the south corner are the remains of a small bay
with cusps to the window tracery, unlike the hall window,
which has plain square heads. It was probably carried
down to the level of the large hall window ledge, forming
a light to the dais of the hall, but it is now so grown up
with foliage that its proportions cannot be clearly traced.
The kitchen occupies an unusual position. Instead of lying
beyond the screens, it lies behind the great parlour in the
south wing, some little distance from the hall, and is of
large size. It contains a curious arrangement of two fire-
places, both of granite, side by side ; one, of huge size like
those in the kitchen of Berry Pomeroy, the other, of small size,
more of the proportions of a modern fireplace. The Great
Parlour in the south wing, now divided into two rooms, has
a fine granite mantel, with the centre divided by an inver-
ted V-shaped incision, common to many west Devon and
Cornish houses, and which also occurs in Brittany whence
perhaps it was introduced. The wall-plates and beams are
carved with gothic designs, the ragged staff and scrolls of
112 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
foliage ornament predominating, but the quality of the work
is unusually good for Devon and more resembles work of
a like nature in Essex or Suffolk.
The position of the Great Parlour, with solar over, in
relation to their position to the hall are similar to those of
Athelhampton, Dorset, a house of about the same period.
The room over the Great Parlour, the solar, is now
divided into three rooms and at the end nearest the
hall, one is shown a hiding place, but as it is lighted with
a window visible from the courtyard this is doubtful. It
has similar fine carved beams but not of quite such fine
design and the mantelpiece is similar in design to that of
the parlour. Beyond these rooms, to the south, appears
another extension at a lower roof level, terminating in a
gardrobe. The chimneys are the great features of the house
and seem to be a survival from the earlier house. At Place
House, Tisbury, Wilts, is a louvre shaped chimney cut in
soft stone; and at Preston Plucknett, near Yeovil, another,
now patched in places with brick, but in each house only
one remains, whereas at Newnham there are two complete
and the remains of a third. Being built of granite, they have
survived. The form of chimney is an early one and I
cannot call to mind any other example in the county ; only
a few of this type remain now in the country.
In submitting this brief account of Newnham the writer
desires to explain that he only spent a short time there
with the Devonshire Association, and was unable to take
any photographs or measurements. A. L. R.
95. Parish of Welcombe (IX., p. 70, par. 73). — I
notice that OHver, in the Additional Supplement of his
Mouasticon, says (p. 18) : S. Nectan's Chapel, at Welcombe,
" honorifice aedificata," was consecrated with its cemetery
in Sep. 1508. The wake was to be kept on the Sunday after
the Feast of S. Michael. (See Oldham's Reg., fol. 29 ad calcem).
As a sign of dependance on the Parish Church of
Hartland, the inhabitants of Welcombe were charged to keep
in repair " partem fossati cemeterii Ecclesie parochialis."
The copy of the indenture printed on p. 70 formed part,
I believe, of the Pitman Jones MSS. and is now part of
Stockdale MSS., in the possession of the Exeter Diocesan
Devon Clay Pipes and Wig Curlers.
Photo by Mr. H. U'ykes.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 113
Architectural and Archaeological Society. There were a few
slips, to some of which I would call attention, as they have
made the sense unintelligible.
p. 70, line 34, and elsewhere, for inhybaimts read inhytaunts.
line 36, for three read there.
p. 7>f, line 9, for dyvs read dyv''s.
p. 72, line 7, second after to be cancelled ; for Saynts read
Paymts.
line 8, for or read etc.
line II, for dy^ryg read dyryg {i.e. dirige).
line 19, insert do not between heyng and observe.
line 20, for these read there.
And the last line p. 73 should read, " the last three
Abbots, John Prust, sr., John Prust, jr., and Thomas Pope,
J. F. Chanter.
96. Ancient Devon Clay Tobacco Pipes. — As so
little is known of Devon clay pipes of early make, it seems
desirable that some attempt should be made to classify such
specimens as are known to collectors and collectors them-
selves brought into touch with each other.
There are numerous examples of pipes marked " Barn-
staple " and " Topsham."
There are five known examples of pipe marks for Topsham,
all by the same maker, Isaac Prance, and one for Barnstaple
marked with the name of that town. One of these, of earlier
date than the others, marked " Topsham," resembles the
Barum specimen in every respect, both of lettering and
design. Mr. Alfred Wallis, writing in Notes and Gleanings
(vol. ii., 15th June, 1889, p. 88), on the discovery at Barn-
staple of a pipe marked Barum, asks, " Was there at any
time a china factory at Exeter ? " May not this specimen
have been made in Topsham which would account for the
identical shape and very similar mark in a town importing
American tobacco and away from the coast which was most
in touch with Dutch trade ? I am led to this supposition
from the fact that I have in my possession a pipe marked
with the smoker's name, " Mr. W. Q.," which was found in
Prance's spoil heap, and which I believe to be unique.
W. Q. (? William Quick) is reputed to have been a ship-
master of Topsham and Barnstaple.
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114 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
As regards unmarked pipes, I find a very prevalent type
in Exeter which is of slighter make than that of Topsham,
possessing the abnormal " forehead " but not the well
developed " heel."
The type prevailing in the Plymouth district has the
"heel" but not the "forehead," the bowl being curiously
constructed towards the top.
I do not think, as many do, that the size of, or the thick-
ness of the stem, always decides the age of a pipe. But I
am of opinion that the flat " heel " (never revived in clay)
is a sure proof of the antiquity of a pipe.
The bowls are large in districts where Dutch trade pre-
dominated, as at Barnstaple, Topsham, Bridport, Hull,
Bridgwater, etc., whereas where the trade inclined to America
they were small, sometimes abnormally so, as at Bristol,
Keynsham, and the Midlands. I have an example from the
Cathedral Yard, of which the inside diameter of the bowl
is five-sixteenths of an inch, the outside greatest diameter
half an inch, and it stands three-quarters of an inch from
" heel " to brim. An ordinary cedar pencil cannot be in-
r^;uiii< c(fkri^ •^ serted into thjs_bowL_Trhis specimen is smaller than one
fr(J1^ U^ ^U)ref_ pTound by Mr. Betts^Tn^t-hg-stairo of No. i, SouthciiBhay
^j;r.tC'S,( ^r-^;^;t^r-^:;^^ and was
i-oail/'^f-kBiiLf^ ^doubtless imported. ' '^i'y ^-^l l^f4-i^<'^5.p./irv )
\><il^c€ ^^cu^^*) J As regards pipes with large bowls, these were adapted
to the " mundungus," or common tobacco (similar to Boer
tobacco) then grown in Gloucestershire and elsewhere; also
for the then fashionable Dutch Varinas.
The clay used was no doubt taken from the Teign Valley,
and there is an absence of the nodules of stone so frequent
in the old Midland pipes.
The ancient Dutch pipes [c. 1600) are of the same shape
as the old Devon pipes, as can be seen in the paintings of
the old masters (Teniers, etc.), which is not surprising, as
they were made with English moulds.
To correctly delineate the shape of a pipe place it on a
block an inch high over paper with gaslight twenty inches
directly above, and trace the shadow. The sketch may be
finished when the pipe is removed and the place of origin
and mark, if any, added. I have about three hundred done
in this manner.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 115
Some pipes are exceedingly hard, having been sent when
foul to be reburnt. "Charles Wharton, of Beverley Park,
Yorks, to William Wainman at a halfpenny a dozen for
'firing' in 1700." (Thos. Shepperd, F.G.S., Pipes in Hull
Museum).
Edward Tribble (Aug. 12th, 1654), Exeter pipe maker,
deposed at the City Sessions that Diana Cross, suspected
witch, " called for fire at his house, which he gave her, and
for one month afterwards he could not make his pipes to his
satisfaction" {City Archives).
John Hunt, pipe maker, Topsham, died 1789 (Cathedral
Register).
Elisha Channon, pipe maker, c. 1800 (?) back of Topsham
Inn, South St., Exeter.
Barnstaple is also known for another article of clay, viz.,
wig curlers. Some years ago a number (of which I have
typical examples) were found behind a shop skirting. The
use of these relics of olden time led, in the early nineteenth
century, to fierce controversy, which extended over many
years, and which was finally settled by the finding of a print
in the B.M., showing a wig-maker with a charcoal fire and
the disputed articles on it being warmed for use. I have an
example with the maker's initials (W.B.) on the end, found
at Topsham. Arthur Rippon.
97. Eggbuckland, South Devon (VHI., p. 57, par.
56). — The only reference to this place in Brotiescombe's
Register seems to be that cited by Preb. Hingeston-Randolph,
under " Plympton " (p. 224). It is on fol. 21b of the Register,
and the spellings are : [in margin] Ekeboklond ; [m line i]
Ekebokelond ; [and in line 4] Ekeboklond.
E. Lega-Weekes.
98. Collins (IX., p. 80, par. 76). — According to an
article in the Western Weekly Mercury, September 27th, 191 3,
on Ham House, the home of the Trelawnys, Samuel
Pollexfen Trelawny (b. 1737, d. 1771), married a daughter
of Thomas Luce, of Whitleigh. They had issue one daughter
called Mary, who married in 1784 George Collins, d.l., son
of General Arthur Tucker Collins.
Is there any connection between this and the query above
referred to? ^ t'^X. P'^^' J. VV.
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90. "All is not Fable." — I have before me a small
book of 86 pages with the above title. The title page bears
neither the name of the author, the publisher's or printer's
imprint, nor the date of issue. On the fly-leaf is the following
inscription in ink : " By the Hon''''' Louisa Clifford." " This
little volume was printed at Chudleigh, but never published.
With a very few exceptions the whole impression was
destroyed, but it was immediately reprinted with several
emendations. The reprint was also suppressed." Can any
of your readers substantiate the statements that the book was
written by the Hon. Louisa Clifford and printed at Chudleigh.
I should also be glad to know the date of publication, together
with any other particulars concerning it. Curiosus H.
100. Sittings in Churches (IX., p. 36, par. 35). — In
making his enquiry as to when seats were first introduced into
churches, Mr. Fred. Day propounds a question that is practi-
cally unanswerable. The following notes on seats in churches
may however be of interest to him. I make no attempt to
discuss the postures customary to churchmen for prayer or
praise at different periods ; but merely write from personal
knowledge of various churches in the West of England.
We have to remember that in the middle ages the church,
at any rate in a small parish, was the only public building
in the place, and served for all local purposes. The chancel
and sanctuary were reverently screened off from the rest
of the building ; parclose screens enclosed side altars, if there
were any ; and the nave, a large open space, was at the
disposal of the parishioners. Here miracle plays were acted,
and local affairs discussed.
Inventories of domestic furniture for this period shew us
how large a part stools and benches played in the household,
and we may reasonably suppose that such stools and benches
could be brought into the church if required. When the halls
of the noblest were set with trestle tables and benches that
could be removed when done with, a plank supported on two
logs would serve for church seats at a time when comfort
was not so greatly studied. It must be remembered that
save for occasional sermons from some passing preacher, or
such dramas as above alluded to, the services were short and
would not long keep the worshippers on their knees.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 117
For the aged and infirm a stone bench was frequently
built along the wall of nave or aisle. Such benches are down
each side of the nave in Exeter Cathedral. Another remains
in the Lady Chapel at Ottery St. Mary : portions may be
found in the north choir aisle at Crediton, and on the north
east in the Church at Newton St. Cyres. There is a stone
bench round three sides of the north transept at Tintagel
Church. In this, and some other cases, we may suppose the
places were used for local meetings, when the incumbent
with his churchwardens and the principal parishioners would
sit round (as in a Chapter House) and discuss parochial affairs.
As both the nave of Exeter Cathedral and the church at
Ottery were completed in the 14th century (circa 1350) we
may regard the stone benches as dating (at the latest) from
this period.
The massive oak seats with carved bench ends which
remain in many of our churches are of various dates, but
none seem earlier than the end of the 15th century. Where
they are carved with sacred emblems or saints we may
feel sure that they are fairly early. Some beautiful work
remains at Coombe-in-Teignhead, decorated with figures
of St. Katharine, St. Barbara and other saints, and completed
in purely gothic style. At Braunton we find St. Brannock
with his cow.
The emblems of the Passion are universally represented
on this earlier work, though the fine series at Poughill and
Launcells near Bude verge on the Renaissance in style, but
at Poughill the purely gothic Hell's mouth appears among
the carvings.
At Trull in Somerset a celebrated series of bench ends
represents a religious procession, with the priest bearing
the pyx, accompanied by a crucifer, and choristers with
candles. On another bench end in this church we find the
date 1 5 10; and elsewhere a craftsman has added his name
and date to later work : — " Simon Warman, maker of this
work. Anno Dni. 1560."
Armorials are always helpful for dates. At Landulph,
Cornwall, we find the arms of Courtenay, the label differenced
with annulets, and the shield surmounted by a mitre, for
Bishop Peter Courtenay (1478-1486.) The emblems of the
Passion are represented, and some curious sporting devices,
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a fox running off with a goose, and fighting cocks. At
Abbotsham, North Devon, are the arms of John Vesey, after-
wards Bishop of Exeter, denoting the time when he was
Archdeacon of Barnstaple, soon after 1503.
Hartland Church seems to have had no seats until Hugh
Prust of Thorry " did at his owne charges paie for the
erecting of all the seats, pews and seages in St, Mary's
Guild or aisle." This was early in the i6th century, and
the seats were "framed in the towne of Biddeforde." They
are still in the church and bear the donor's initials H.P. It
may be noted that seats (which were not all put up at once)
usually first appear in a side aisle or chapel, as if they
were not to be regarded as necessary throughout the church.
On the whole the benches in North Devon are earlier, and
display better work than those of the south. Of all the
churches in Devon, Braunton and Mortehoe take the palm
for completeness and beauty of work. The series at Mortehoe
is Renaissance in style, and has a collection of weird beasts
represented, the most night-raare-like characters. Sandford,
near Crediton, is furnished with magnificent bench ends of
late i6th century date, unlike any others in the Diocese.
East Budleigh is the only church in South, or East Devon
retaining its entire set of carved bench ends, remarkable
for not having a single sacred emblem among them. This
has been attributed to the puritanical influence of Walter
Raleigh, Sir Walter's father, who is more likely to have
instigated the work than (as local gossip loves to assert)
his famous son.
Undoubtedly the carved bench end with all its beauty
was the forerunner of the pew system. Arms and initials
introduced into the ornament denote private owners. The
17th century saw the erection of such elaborate structures
as that which occupies so nmch space at Holcombe Rogus.
The manorial chapel or transept became the family pew
adapted not for worship but for comfort. We hear of the
fireplace in these pews, and tales are told of the squire
who would poke the fire violently if the parson preached
too long. Such a fireplace is still extant at Bere-Ferrers
enclosed beneath a square-headed arch which dates from
the i6th century, when it was first put in, and its use has but
recently been discontinued.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 119
Sometimes the carved bench-ends were boxed up in these
pews, as at Braunton, where their preservation is almost
miraculous. Too often the old benches were rooted out
for the erection of the pews, or laid on the floor, carved
surface downwards, to form with their stout timbers a firm
foundation upon which these horse boxes were built.
^-^ P- '^'?. Beatrix F. Cresswell.
loi. Bishops Nympton Court Rolls. — Does any sub-
scriber to the D. S' C. N. & Q. possess or know of the
existence of any of the early Court Rolls of the Manor of
Bishops Nympton, or of any copies of such Court Rolls ?
One Philip Pyne was steward of this Manor in 1686, and
I am desirous of ascertaining whether John Pyne, his father,
who came to Bishops Nympton in 1641, was also steward
of this Manor.
The present Lord of the Manor has none of the early
Court Rolls. E. C. Cheston.
102. Hayman Family (IX., p. 96 ; par. 87). — Members of
this family were connected with Totnes, but there was a
Dartmouth family and they were connected with the family
of Duck. On 25th April, 1588, Nicholas Hayman subscribed
£2^ towards the defence of the country from the attack of
the Spanish Armada. The following entries are in the
Registers of Totnes Church : —
6 Nov., 1579, was chrystened M'gett, daughter of Nycholas
Heman.
13 Nov., 1580, was chrystened Rychard, son of Nycholas
Heman.
13 Aug., 1582, was chrystened Amis, daughter of Nycholas
Heman.
12 Sep., 1583, was chrystened Jenne, daughter of Nycholas
Heaman.
16 April, 1586, .... daughter of Nycholas Hayman.
10 May, 1586, was buried Amis, the wife of Nycholas
Hayman.
3 Nov., 1586, was buried .... daughter of Nycholas
Hayman.
In 1579 Nicholas Hayman was Secretary of the Mer-
chants Company in Totnes and a Freeman, and William
Hayman took the oath of apprentice.
I20 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
In 1586 Mr. Hayman was M.P. for Totnes, and was
Mayor of Totnes 1589, and subsequently left Totnes and
went to Dartmouth to live. Wood's Athena Oxoniensis men-
tions Robert Hayman, sojourner, of Exeter Coll., Governor
of Plantation at Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. Notes and
Queries, Sept., igio, has a note showing that Robert Hayman
the poet was the eldest son of Nicholas Hayman. Robert
Hayman the poet has a piece describing a visit of Sir
Francis Drake to Totnes and his meeting him.
Robert Hayman, Quodlihet (1628), Book IV., No. 7: "Of
the great and famous ever to be honoured Knight, Sir Francis
Drake, and of my little — little self."
"The dragon that our Seas did raise his crest,
And brought back heaps of gold unto his nest,
Unto his foes more terrible than thunder
Glory of his age, after-ages wonder,
Excelling all those that excell'd before ;
It's fear'd we shall have none such any more.
Effecting all he sole did undertake.
Valiant, just, wise, milde, honest, godly Drake.
This man, when I was little, I did meete,
As he was walking up Totnes long street ;
He asked me whose I was ? I answered him.
He asked me if his good friend were within.
A faire red orange in his hand lie had ;
He gave it me whereof I was right glad ;
Takes and kist me, and prays God bless my boy.
Which I record with comfort to this day.
Could he on me have breathed with his breath
His gifts Elias-like, after his death,
Then had I beene enabled for to doe
Many brave things I have had a heart unto.
I have no great desire, as e're iiad hee
To joy annoy : friends, foes, but 'twill not be."'
Richard Hayman was Mayor of Dartmouth 1601.
E. W.
103. Tour in North Devon. — Can any reader give par-
ticulars of the four friends who took the tour in N. Devon
described in a book privately printed by Spottiswoode and
Co., of London, in 1862 ? It was written by H. W. A. As
four of the subscribers were called Adams, that was probably
the name of the author. Other large subscribers were
A. W. Bethune, J. Baker, R. S. Langwood, T. Lyon, and
Mrs. J. Wood. Who were they? T. Cann Hughes.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 121
104. Prouse Memorl\ls in Chagford Church (IX.,
p. 81, par. 77.) — (i) Prouz, as in Colby's Visitation^ Vivian
and here, with the addition that the lions are 2 and i.
(2) Redvers as here. (3) Dinham as on shield. [She is not
given as an heiress, and Lord Dinham died without sur-
viving issue ; Pole certainly connects the families more with
Sir Robert' Dinham, Knt. ; therefore I should think this coat
ought to bear a cadency mark. Sir Robert seems to have
lived in the 13th century.] (4) Then should follow if
Dinham is correct, as brought in by him, Emma Wid-
worthy. Azure, six eaglets displ. 3, 2, i, or, d. and h. of Sir
Hugh Widworthy ; secondly, wife of Sir Robert Dinham.
(5) Sir Hugh Widworthy = Emma, d. and h. of Walter
GiFFARD, Sable, three lozenges conjoined in fess ermine (with a
crescent for cadency). (6) De Gidlegh, sahle, semee of twenty-
one bezants, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3. [This is practically Cornwall,
and one doubts whether it is correct ; and as it is Humphry
Prouse's coat, who lived in the beginning of the 17th century,
ought he to have painted the early quartering of De Gidlegh
as Cornwall ? This quartering does not come into Colby's
Visitation.] (7) Ferrers. Vivian says he was a knight of
Throwleigh, but Pole does not knight him, and gives another
descent in Sir William Prous' pedigree in that Alls, daughter
of Alice that = Sir Roger Mules, married Sir John
Damerell, instead of Alice, her mother, marrying secondly
Sir John Damarell. (8) Widworthy again, as Sir William
Prouse = Alice, d. and h. of Sir Hugh Widworthy, which of
course brings in again (9) Giffard. It seems as if William
of Eastervale (? Easton in Chagford), fourth son of Sir
William Prouse and Alice Ferrers, ignored his three elder
brothers, one of whom married a Widworthy heiress, the
quarterings (8) and (9), and another was of Widworthy ; as
WiUiam was the only one that carried on the male line, in
Colby's Devon Visitation, the jump is from Ferrers to
Wadecote, and does not include the coat of Ponte, which
is the next on the shield. ? (10) Ponte. I suppose Mrs.
Lega-Weekes is to be congratulated on finding a new foreign
armorial, but I think she has been misled, as I take it the
Jordan almond is really the two arches of a bridge with a
flag-post in the centre and a little ' barry wavy ' for water
underneath, this being a canting charge upon the name ;
122 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
Riestap is quite silent about the Jordan almond, though he
gives many Pontes. Again, Elena, daughter of Jeffery
de Ponte (Pole, 246), the wife of William Prous, is not
stated to be an heiress, but Humpfrey Prouse, who was
living at the commencement of the 17th century, may have
recorded a fact ; therefore I suppose it may remain with a
query before it. (11) Wadecote as given in the text.
(12) Cruwys as given in the text. (13) Norton as given
in the text. (14) Orchard as given in the text. (15) Cole.
In Colby's Devon Visitation this quartering is given as the
usual Cole prevalent in many counties ; the one here is quite a
variation, and might have been granted to Cole of Colehays
(see Pole, 200) when Pomeray gave it to Cole, his cook ;
one would have expected the charge to be a calf not an
ass. (i6) Cobb as in text ; Norfolk Visitations says. Swans
in chief and a herring in base; Colby's Devon Visitation, p. 223,
Shovellers, i.e. ducks, and a fish naiant in base. I must now
protest against coats of arms being distinguished by the
alphabet in brackets like notes in the text of a book ; they
have a style of their own, and would be blazoned thus :
Prouse impaling, Per f ess in chief, quarterly, i and 4. Arscott,
2nd quarter. Argent a cross flory between four crescents gules.
Tilley, brought in by the marriage of Robert Arscott with
Joane, d. and h. of Nicholas Tilley. 3rd quarter, Renston,
really Argent a chevron between three roses sable. Vivian says,
John Arscott = . . . , d. of Renston, who heads the list
of the Arscott line. First wife, Prouse impaling. Per fess in
base, quarterly of six, 1 and 6. Per fess embattled gules and
sable, three cats passant argent, is the coat of Lippingcott in
Colby's Devon Visitation, which is strengthened by the 2nd
quartering, Wibbery, Sable a chevron between three mermaids
argent, John Lippingcott of Lippincott having married Jane,
co-h. of William and d. of John Wybbery ; but Vivian
contests this second marriage, as he says Humpfry Prous
married secondly Honor Bellew, and owing to the fact that
the second marriage was not entered in the Devon Visitation,
he must have thought that this Bellew marriage was with
the Humphry Prous that certainly married Catherine Arscott,
whereas this license might have been for the other Humphry
Prous who died in 1622. If the shield is as old as the early
part of the 17th century, they are not likely to have made
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 123
such a mistake. Next comes the difficulty of solving what
family is represented by the 2nd quartering, whether it
is Wibbery or Gogh. I am inclined to think it is Wibbery,
as it proves Lippincott's right to be ' of Wybbery,' and
would come in order before the Laploi5e, the 3rd quartering,
viz., John, grandson of the Wibbery marriage. Then would
come the 4th quartering, Goff, as in the text, proving Philip
Lippincot's marriage with Alice, d. and co-h. of Richard
Gough of Kilkeham in Cornwall. And the last and 5th
quartering, Scudamore, properly 6?h quartering, since Elford
should be the 5th, as John Lippincott = Anne, d. and co-h.
of Roger Elford of co. Devon, who bore Per pale argent
and sable a lion rampant gules. The whole of these six
quarterings represent the coat of Humpfry Prous' second
marriage on his shield, whether she was a Lippincott or a
Bellew. ^ f- irO ■ F. Were.
105. Wyke Arms. — Miss Edith K. Prideaux, in her
admirable account of Sutcombe Church and its Builders
(Appendix to D. S' C. N. & Q., Jan. and Apr., 1914), having
set forth in her "Appendix I." the second marriage of Alice,
daughter of Stephen GifFord, of Theuborough, by Joan,
daughter and heiress of John Spencer, of Spencerscombe, to
William Prideaux, of Adeston, remarks in a footnote that
their daughter Jane married William Wyke, of North Wyke
and Cocktree, " hence the Wyke arms in Sutcombe Church:
Ermine, 3 battle axes erect in pale " [sic] In another " Appendix "
the back of the bench numbered 46 in the plan of the church
is stated to be carved with " Wyke of Cocktree Arms," and
and on p. 27 the illustration (No. 22) of this carving is referred
to by Miss Prideaux as the three battle axes erect in pale
[sic] of the Wyke family.
The photograph clearly shews on a field without ermine
spots three battle axes in fess, not in pale, which would have
been the correct description had they been disposed one
above the other in a vertical row. Curiously the blades are
turned towards the sinister instead of the dexter side, while
a capital E in the adjoining compartment is also reversed,
as if the carver had used a tracing turned wrong side out.
Thus neither the blazon given by Miss Prideaux nor the
design on the bench back represents truly the arms of Wyke,
124 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
of North Wyke and Cocktree, which are Ermine, three battle
axes sable/'- I have never seen the battle axes described as
in pale or in fess for Wyke ; they are generally — and so far
as I know, always — disposed "two and one," as on the
reredos of the tomb of " Warrior Wyke " in South Tawton
Church and over a window of the domestic chapel at North
Wyke. I am aware of the Wyke-Prideaux marriage, but is
Miss Prideaux sure that the carving in Sutcombe Church does
not commemorate an alliance with some family other than
Wyke bearing the same charges on a plain field ? Papworth
gives a long list of such, e.g., Batten, co. Devon ; Denys,
or Dennis, co. Devon ; Gibbes, Devon, Derby, etc. ; Hall,
Kent ; Hicks ; Lewston, co. Dorset. (In the last case the
axes are stated to be in pale). Ethel Lega-Weekes.
106. Church Bands. — As these have become extinct
within the memory of several persons now living, it is
thought that an account of some of them will not only be
generally interesting but will also induce readers to add
their reminiscences of other instances and give further par-
ticulars both as to localities and as to instruments. The
number of instruments was commonly three, viz. : violin,
clarinet, and bass viol — which, locally, means the 'cello, not
the double bass. Sometimes a flute, or, maybe, a bassoon
would be found in place of, or in addition to, the violin ; the
clarinet and bass viol were nearly always present.
In two interesting articles {Musical News, July ig, 1913,
pp. 56, 58 ; Antiquary, 1914, vol. 1., pp. 267-9), Mr. Gordon
Anderson has given a description of the bands at Newton
Poppleford and Harpford. In the former, " the violin was
played by a man whose name has been lost to history ; the
clarinet was played by one John Squires, a tailor by trade.
The bass viol seems to have been a popular instrument,
there being no fewer than three performers on it, viz. :
William Welsman (tailor), Nehemiah Bailey (labourer), and
Arthur Ham (baker), the last named, however, having a
second string to his bow in the shape of a flute, which he
played when someone else was present to undertake the
duties of the bass viol." Mr. Ham was ahve at the date of
*See Carew's Scroll 0/ Anns (ed. by J. Brooking-Rowe), No. 516;
Note Book of Tristram Risdon (ed. by J. Dallas), p. 50 ; the Lysons'
History of Devon, p. ccxxv. ; and Westcott, p. 557.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 125
the second article, " a fine old fellow " of 81, and his portrait
is given in it. He still had his flute — though he hadn't
enough breath to blow it ! but the bass viol, being a cumber-
some thing to have in a small house, was " stood out in the
yard," where, needless to say, it soon fell a prey to the
elements — an ignominious ending for an old servant, nearly
as bad as that of another bass viol that the " guid wife "
put behind the fire, "as it was lumbering up the chimney-
corner ! " The Newton Poppleford band terminated its
existence about forty-eight years ago. The body of the
church, according to Mr. Anderson, is comparatively modern,
but in the old church there was a gallery over the entrance
door, and the band used to sit in this gallery, as also did
the choir, which was small, numbering only seven or eight
singers, and composed of members of both sexes. A certain
J^Ir. Bastin, a shoemaker, who was famous in those days as
a tenor, and who " could go higher than any girl " (?), was in
1 91 3 still living in Newton Poppleford. At Christmas the
band went round the parish as the " Waits," and collected
money for its upkeep.
At Harpford the church music, both vocal and instru-
mental, seems to have been supplied by a family named
Carter. A member of the family, named Sydenham Carter,
aged 76, was still living at Otterton, where he owned a
delightful farm. He was " one of sixteen, all musicers " (!).
In the church band he played a violin which he made
himself, and on which his daughter then performed ; his
father played the bass viol. His brother Joel also played
the violin, and his uncle the clarinet. The rest of the
family formed the choir, " and they sang fine, not like they
do it nowadays." At this church also there was a gallery for
the choir and band, and at Christmas they went round as
the " Waits," and apparently had a " rare old time." They
often "didn't get home till morning," but visited the farm-
houses of the neighbourhood, where they were received with
open arms and immediately put on the " free list."
Mr. Anderson writes, that in addition to these two bands,
he has since ascertained some details of one at Denbury.
Here the church still retains the old west gallery, in which
the "singers and minstrels" used to sit. The music was
in the hands of a family named Rowe. " Old Rowe "
126 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
played the bass viol, while his three sons performed on a flute
and two fiddles. The old man was then living at East Ogwell,
and Mr. Anderson believed he had still got his bass viol.
At Hartland, the west gallery was removed when the
church was "restored" in 1848. I have been unable to get
very definite particulars of the band, but William Cann,
the parish clerk, generally played the bass viol, though he
sometimes took the clarinet ; Mr, James Rowe, a substantial
yeoman, afterwards churchwarden, played the violin ; Sam
Walter also played the violin; William Short the flute; and
there were others. Old "Painter" Heard "learned" them
to play the different instruments ; he was churchwarden in
1826, and his name appears, together with those of Mr.
Rowe's father and the writer's grandfather and great-
grandfather, on one of the church bells, which were re-cast
at that date and increased in number from five to six : —
The names of Dennis, Heard, Chope, and Rowe
With us can never die :
They saved our lives ; not only so,
But bade us multiply.
The only other place of which I have got any inform-
ation is Torpoint, where, I am told, the band was in existence
until after 1864. The instruments were violins, bass viol,
and flute. George Davey played the violin, Coffey and
Jackson the bass viol, and James Wavish, junior, the flute.
The band was in this case placed on the floor of the
church, near the pulpit. R. Pearse Chope.
107. Calchurch. — Can anyone throw light on the meanmg
of Calchurch or Colchurch. At Heath Barton in Whitstone
was an ancient chapel dedicated to St. Mary and in 1243
Renus de Halleham, who held it of Beaumont, is said to
hold a quarter fee in Calchurch (Testa de Nevil, p. i8ort.) I
suppose the church which at one time gave its name to the
estate, though it no longer does so, was properly called
St. Mary's Calchurch. In the city of London there is a
church called St. Mary Colchurch.
Heath Barton has had various names. In Domesday
it was simply an estate at Witestan {Vict. Hist., 462). In 1243
it was an estate at Calchurch. Subsequently it appears as
Heath St. Mary and now is simply known as Heath Barton.
Oswald J. Reichel.
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Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 127
108. Derivation of the Name Heavitree. — On p. 83
of the A^^mMx_ to Z). &> C. N. & Q., vol. ix., part iii.,
mention is made of a burial ground for delinquents executed
" at that fearefull, spacious and strong Tree," namely, the
gallows beyond Heavitree ; and on p. 89 is a reference to
a man who ** (for his delinquency) ended his life at the
heavy Tree." To the first entry is appended a footnote
from Risdon's Survey of Devon, which begins, " Heavytree,
which (after some) took name of the execution of male-
factors."
This fantastic derivation of the name Heavitree has had
a long vogue, and appears in print every now and then ; it
is high time it was refuted. The gallows was erected some
way outside the village in the year 1532, but the name
Heavitree had existed for centuries before that ; it appears
in the Domesday Survey as Hevetruua and Hevetrove, so the
absurdity of deriving it from a circumstance 400 years later
is at once apparent.
In Polwhele's History of Devon, published in 1797, in the
account of the district of Heavitree and Wonford we find,
" There is a rivulet called the Wone or Avon at West
Wonford, whence the village takes its name (vol. ii., p. 21).
At a comparatively recent date Worthy says " The word
* Heavitree ' Is most probably derived from ' Ave ' or ' Avon,'
water, and ' Tre' the British word for a town or settlement."
{Suburbs of Exeter, p. 7.)
This suggestion seems reasonable ; in confirmation I may
add that I have often heard the name as " Avetree"; Ave in
two syllables, rhyming with navvy, but the a rather broader.
" Tre " at the beginning of a name is very familiar in
Cornwall and Wales, as in Trevena and Tredegar ; it implies
a settlement of a few houses, hardly a town as Worthy
says. In Devon it seems "tre" was placed at the end of
the name, as Plymtree, Langtree, and Ottery, which last,
in the earliest charter is referred to as Autree, and in
Carew's Scroll of Arms it is given as Sainte Marye Awtrey
(58, 77, 608), Awtry (84, 135), Awtree (416, 427, 592, 607),
Autree (605), and Otrey (255). In the Domesday Survey it is
Otrei and Otri.
Avon, Aune and Awe are all forms of the same word
for water, cf. Aveton (Auton) Giffard. So it appears that
128 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
Heavitree is the same as Ottery. Probably Wonford, on
the banks of the Heavitree Avon, is really Auneford, but
I have not found any example of this spelling ; in Domesday
it is Wenfort.
I have to thank Miss Lega-Weekes for the references
from Carew's Scroll , of Arms. Kate M. Clarke.
log. " Honiton Lace-Making, " by " Devonia," is the
title of a book of 80 pp. illustrated by excellent designs
signed "Olive" published by The Bazaar Office, 32,
Wellington Street, Strand. It is undated, but was probably
issued about 1880. In the text a Mrs. Carter, a lace
maker, of Exmouth is mentioned. Can any reader disclose
the identity of "Devonia" and "Olive." Curiosus II.
iio. Crest of Strode of Devon. — On a mount, a savin
tree ppv. fvucted gules. This is the description at the College
of Arms of the crest of "Strode" of Devon, but when I
called there some few years ago no one could tell me what
a "savin tree" was. The crest as blazoned varied from
an oak to a tree like one taken from a Noah's Ark ! It
was suggested to me that it was really an oak with red
acorns. The family motto did not though agree with that,
being " Hieme viresco " ("In winter I grow green "), or as
it is properly translated, " In winter I flourish."
Shortly after my visit to the college I was busy at home
planting trees and talking to the old workman. He said,
** They savins will poison anything " It was thus that I
found out what I had wanted so long to discover — the
" savins " were " Yews " — and I also had a lesson in heraldry
where least expected. Q^^ p - ' y^'y^/^^- G. S.
III. CoMBEMARTiN SiLVER. — A short while ago I saw
a small waiter, now in the possession of the Rev. Cople-
stone, of Offwell, 7 inches in diameter with a border of scroll
and shell work, bearing London hall marks for 1847 and
made by Messrs. Barnard which was also stamped
" Combemartin Silver." This must be one of the latest
pieces made from this Devonshire silver, as the mines were
closed in 1848, and though opened again in 1875 there was
then no success. I should be glad to hear of any other
pieces stamped " Combemartin Silver." J. F. Chanter.
" Combemartm bilver.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 129
112. Booksellers and Printers in Devon and Corn-
wall IN THE Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. —
Having for a number of years collected trade labels,
advertisements and other items connected with booksellers
and printers in the two westernmost counties, I have thrown
together the following by way of Addenda to the late Rev.
J. Ingle Dredge's work on the subject, which he privately
reprinted from the Western Antiquary 1885-91. The paginal
references are to that work. The references to the Exeter
Flying Post are obtained from an article in the same pub-
lication, vol. v., p. 163, entitled " Trewman's Exeter Flying
Post," by the late Mr. R. Dymond, F.S.A.
About 1793-6 was published The Universal British Directory
of Trade, Commerce and Manufacture. It was comprised in four
8vo volumes, with a subsequent Appendix volume, and was
undated. It went through more than one edition, and the
canvassers in some towns did their work much more
thoroughly than those in others ; Exeter, for instance, was
well done, giving the Street in the addresses of the trades-
men ; Plymouth, on the other hand, was less carefully done,
appearing to be much less complete, and only the name and
calling of the tradesman being given. Hence the fact of any
particular person's name not appearing in the Directory is not
conclusive evidence that he was not in business at the time.
I have laid this work under contribution for the purpose of
the present paper, initialling the extracts U.B.D.
J. S. Attwood.
Axminster.
Butcher, Samuel, Printer and Perfumer. — U.B.D.
Barnstaple.
MuRCH (F.), p. 90. — Mr. Murch, Bookseller in Barnstaple.
— Exeter Flying Post, Sept. 2, 1763.
Sold by
F. MURCH,
Bookseller, Printer, and Book-binder,
In the High-Street,
BARNSTAPLE.
Small printed label removed from book dated 1790.
The accompanying illustration (very slightly enlarged) of another
fine label of Murch's is reproduced from a block kindly lent by the
manager of the Publishers' Circular. The original label is in my
K
130 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
possession. J. Woodman, its engraver, is not named in U.B.D., and
Mnrch is there described as Bookseller, Printer and Stationer ; he is
the only Barnstaple Bookseller named therein.
Bideford.
Griffiths, Thomas, Printer, Bookseller, &c. — U.B.D.
Mrs. Manning, bookseller in Biddeford. — ExeUr Flying Post,
Sept. 2, 1763.
Bodmin.
LiDDELL, James, Printer and Bookbinder. — U.B.D.
Dartmouth.
Mr. Craven, Bookseller in Dartmouth. — Exeter Flying Post,
Sept. 2, 1763.
Jackson, James, Printer and Stationer.
King, John, Bookseller, Stationer, &c. — U.B.D.
Devonport.
(Dock, or Plymouth Dock.)
Brice, Thomas, Printer.
Heydon, John, Printer, Stationer, Bookbinder.
Richardson, Adnam, Bookseller and Hardwareman.
—U.B.D.
J. DREW,
No. 8, New-Street, Dock,
SELLS
All kinds of Stationaries
on the lowest Terms.
BOOKS BOUND
in the neatest manner.
Oval printed label, within fancy border, removed from book dated 1798.
A Joseph Drew was a bookseller in Exeter in 1750, as recorded by
Mr. Dredge (pp. 46, 47, 70.)
Maurice (P. F.), p. ii6. — Engraved label, see illustration.
MA URICE,
STATIONER AND BOOKSELLER,
Letter Press and Copper Plate Printer,
No. 51,
Fore Street,
PLYMOUTH DOCK.
Oval engraved label within plain border.
Gj
1
7/^^^, jS&i/ihri^^S^Tioo^e^:
.^'FO R E ' S TREE T D O C k"
'^M^ S^S^/-rr/<^t^/i<^^.<yro/^f!//^.^/Cl^ n
(%jy?^. ^>Oo^A^ ^^c^c?ii^ ^>7V^n^/y^^a.l€J^Oi^a'rt/?^ii'L/^,
Arc/ Parcel ofQooT&s^ou^t
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 131
Phelp (sic) (Mr.), p. 61.
SOLD AT
T. PHILP'S
MARKET STREET, DOCK,
[etc.]
A CIRCULATING LIBRARY.
Printed label, date about 1800.
Exeter.
Bishop (Phil.), p. 42.
Another edition of Blackall's Sermon on Almsgiving, of same date,
in 8vo, with some minor variations in the title-page, has this imprint :
" Exon : Printed by ^os. Bliss in the Exchange, for Phill. Bishop in
the Forestreet MDCCViii."
Brice (Thos.), p. 25, &c. — " Brice, Thomas, Printer, North
Street."— C/.5.D.
Butter (Nathaniel.)
Nathaniel Butter was the publisher, in London, of Bishop Jos.
Hall's " The Olde Religion " (third edition, 1630). Possibly Thomas
Butter, Bookseller in St. Martin's Lane temp. Q. Anne (Dredge, p. 44),
may have been his descendant.
Dyer (Gilbert), p. iii. — Dyer, Gilbert, Circulating
Library, High Street— t/.B.D.
at the
CIRCULATIXG LIBRARY
IN the College, Exeter,
KEPT BY
G. DYER
(which is daily increasing, and now contains between Two
and Three Thousand volumes of History, Voyages, Travels,
Plays, Novels, &c., by the best Authors), may constantly be
had all the new Books worthy of general Perusal, also the
Value of any Parcel or Library containing Books which
may be wanted for compleating the said Circulating
Library.
N.B. — Constant attendance given.— Terms of Subscrip-
tion I2S, per Year, or 4s. per Quarter ; and no Expence nor
Attention spared to render the Library agreeable to every
Reader.
Rectangirlar printed label within fancy border, date about 1790.
Sold by
E. JEANES,
Successor to Mr. W. Strong,
LATE MR. G. DYER,
Bookseller and Bookbinder.
Opposite the Guildhall,
EXETER.
Small rectangular engraved label, about 1 in. xfin., date about 1820.
132 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
Grigg (E.), p. 32, &c. — Grigg, Emanuel, Printer and Book-
seller, Fore Street.— U.B.D.
Grigg (W.), p. 29.
I have two labels, apparently struck off from his newspaper
advertisement for the purpose of pasting inside books. The older one
reads : —
" W, GRIGG, Bookseller & Bookbinder, near Broad-Gale towards
the Conduit, Exeter, sells, at the lowest prices, Books of all Sorts "
[then follows a long list of the usual articles], concluding: "Also
Ready Money for any Library or Parcel of Books." Date about 1760.
In the second and slightly smaller label he describes himself : —
"WILLIAM GRIGG, Printer, Bookseller, Stationer and Bookbinder,
near the Conduit, in the Fore-Street, Exeter," and omits his offer to
purchase books. Date a little later than the foregoing.
Hedgeland (Philip), p. 112.
I have three other labels of his, one similar to that reproduced by
Mr. W. P. Hiern, with slight variations in the wording ; another fancy
engraved label, removed from a book dated 1801 ; and another rect-
angular printed label, within a plain border, date about 1790, viz. : —
BOOKS and Stationary Wares of
every kind. Patent Medicines, Musical
Instruments, and a great variety of other
articles, wholesale and retail, sold by
Philip Hedgeland, at the Bible and
Quadrant, nearly opposite the Guildhall,
Fore-street, E.xeter.
es" Books Bound.
All orders executed with strict attention.
Hedgeland is included in U.B.D. at same address as above.
Manning (J.), pp. 53, 74. — Manning, John, Bookseller,
High Street.— U.B.D.
May (George), p. 9.
"Sold by George May Bookseller in Exon."
Narrow printed label removed from a copy of the Homilies, dated 1683.
Osborne (Robert), p. 10, &c.
A Sermon Preached in a Congregation in the City of Exon on the
Thanksgiving-day Thursday, April 16, 1696. By a Minister of the
Gospel. London : Printed for Robert Osborne Bookseller, near the Bear
in Exon 1696. On leaf at end is printed : " Books Printed for, and sold
by, Robert Osborne, near the Bear in Exon," viz., Sermon by G. Trosse
at Taunton, Sept. 7, 1692 ; Christ's Ascension, by Rev, Jos. Hallett, late
Minister of the Gospel in Exon ; and The Pastor's Charge and the
People's Duty, Sermon by Saml. Stoddon,
B 0 OKSEELEIL i?t B OOKBINDE R i^^^
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AcroTTipt Boolcs
Treiick-Hoj^-nS, Clariuetsr TiU'luwytonS.BallairL .
IiairooiLS.Hitull>oy5. .. /f Dafl^'s ElisjLT
German. (Srdmuujnyiutc^bjefiuta Drops
GrixttATS &:C fee. . T iWderOiiii 5cotcJi Poll,
^>tri^^s iijx N'^ling '(^ Bofiodi's Coi-dial.
Writing- J'apcr <tc (pVioJoncellos Xrcft-c. ^, Jam ei''sTo^v^cr& Pills
LcttJT Cafpg felorketJiooks
TVfeflkpe Jt PJayjji^ CardiS.
Inic^MaiwlsPejiS &^c
iSWinarket & Ktvrre Cafes i
MufirBdoks k. Paper yT}) Ceptalic ArRoivleyi ^wS^f^
rVioloncello^.^i^al V Mareflants Dj?ops
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 133
Penny (James), pp. 74, 109. — Penny, James, Bookseller,
Fore Street.— C7.B.Z).
Jas' Penny
Book Seller, Stationer, & Book Binder,
Adjoining the Globe Passage, South Gate Street,
Exeter.
Music and Musical Instruments.
Orders for new Publications executed on the shortest notice.
Oval engraved label within fancy border.
It will be seen that the wording of this label varies only slightly
from his advertisement of 1789, in Brice's Journal (Dredge, p. 74.)
In 1828 the style of the firm was "J. Penny & Son, Booksellers,
Stationers and Printers, No. 185, Fore Street, Corner of North Street,"
the business now carried on by Messrs. Wheaton. I copy this from the
heading of an account for books supplied to N. H. P.Lawrence, Esq.
Pope (John.)
Engraved label in the Chippendale style, by Coffin, Exeter (see
illustration). The quotation from the Tatler is the opening sentence
of No. 147, March i8, 1710.
PoRTBURY (Geo.) — Portbury, George, Bookbinder, North
Street.
Portbury, Henry, Bookbinder, Waterbeer Street. — U.B.D.
Portbury (Geo., Jr.)
Engraved label by Woodman (see illustration.)
Score (Edwd.), p. 23, &c.
Sold by Edward Score, Bookseller,.
over-against the Guild-Hall, Exon.
Narrow oblong: printed label (about 1740.1
Sweetland (A.), p. 52.
Engraved label (see illustration.)
Sweetland (M.), p. 109.— Sweetland, Margaret, Bookseller,
High Street.— C7.B.Z).
SOLD BY
MARGARET SWEETLAND,
(Widow of the late Abel Sweetland)
Bookseller, Stationer and Printseller,
Overagainst the Guildhall, in the Fore-Street,
EXETER
Where may be had every article in the said Branches, and all
Sorts of Patent and other Medicines, on the lowest Terms.
Books neatly bound.
Oval printed label within fancy border. Date about 1790.
134 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
Thorn (B. & Son), p. 30, &c.
A Radical and Expeditious Cure for a recent Catarrhous Cough
[&c., &c.] by John Mudge, F.R.S., Surgeon at Plymouth. The Fourth
Edition. Revised and corrected by the Author. London : Printed for,
and sold by, J. G. Kaven, Furrier and Feather Manufacturer, No. 157,
Fleet Street ; Sold also by J. Walter, at Charing Cross ; B. Thorn & Son,
Exeter; and M. Haydon, Plymouth. MDCCLXXXil.
Thorn (Nath.), p. 17.
Sold by Nathaniel Thorn, Bookseller,
in St. Peter's Church-Yard, Exon.
Narrow oblong printed label (about 1710.)
Trewman & Son, p. 31. — Trewman, R. & Son, Printers,
Booksellers & Stationers, High Street. — U.B.D.
SOLD BY
TREWMAN and SON
PRINTERS and BOOKSELLERS
HIGH-STREET
EXETER
Small oval printed label within radiated border, taken from book dated 1793.
I have also a later and much smaller engraved oval label, same
wording (about Ib20.)
Woolmer (S.), pp. 32, &c. — Woolmer, Shirley, Bookseller,
High Sixeet— U.B.D.
Yeo (Philip), p. 16.
A Sermon Preach'd in the Church of Crediton, Devon, at the Funeral
of John Cobley, the Father, Jonh {sic) his son and Mary his daughter ;
•who perished in the late Fire of their own House, in the said Town
. . . . By Thomas Ley, M.A., Exon. Printed for Sam Farley, for
Phil, Yeo, Bookseller, over-against St. Martin's-Lane in the High Street
(1710.) See Devon N.& Q., vol. iv„ p. 114.
Falmouth.
Alison (M.), p. 25.
M. ALLISON,
BOOKSELLER,
on the Market-Strand,
in
FALMOUTH ;
sells the following Articles, Wholesale and Retail, viz.
[Then follow long detailed lists of Bibles, &c.,
Stationery Ware, Musical Instruments, &c., Glass Ware,
Mathematical Instruments, Medicines.]
MAGAZINES and all other
periodical Publications ....
printing work and book-binding in General perform'd.
A two-pp. double-column 8vo leaflet, bound at end of book
dated 1750.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 135
Another edition of the Sermon by Samuel Walker (p. 25) has only
this imprint: — "Falmouth: Printed for M. AlUson, and Sold by R.
Baldwin, jun., at the Rose in Paternoster Row mdccliii."
Fox (Charles).
BOOKS IN ALL LANGUAGES,
Stationary Wares,
Optical and Mathematical Instruments,
Sea Charts, Maps, and Prints
Sold by Charles Fox,
FALMOUTH.
Engrared label within broad fancy border, embodying gun, globe,
telescopes, &c.
My specimen is unfortunately imperfect. Date probably about 1780.
Elliott, Elizabeth, Printer, Bookseller and Stationer.
Ester, Maria, Bookseller and Stationer.
Russell, Jane, Bookseller and Stationer.
Williams, Joseph, Printer, Bookseller and Stationer — U.B.D.
Honiton.
Mr. Brown, Bookseller in Honiton. — Exeter Flying Post,
Sept. 2, 1763.
KiRKUP, Mary, Bookseller.
Lamport, Grace, Bookseller. — U.B.D.
Launceston.
Bray, William, Printer and Stationer. — U.B.D.
Manning (J.)
Sold by J. Manning,
Book-seller in
LAUNCESTON.
Small printed label within fancy border, date about 1780.
Martin (R.), p. 53.
SOLD BY
R. Martin, Book-seller,
LAUNCESTON.
STATIONARIES,
Patent Medicines,
Music & Musical Instruments,
PERFUMERY, &c.
Printed label within fancy border, date about 1790.
Newton Bushell.
Weatherdon, , Stationer and Printer. — U.B.D.
136 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
Plymouth.
Barniell, Richard, Bookseller, Stationer and Binder.
—U.B,D.
This is probably a misprint for Barnikel. I have a small oval printed
label, within fancy border, date about 1790, as follows : —
F. BARNIKEL,
Stationer and Bookbinder,
Opposite Middle-Lane,
Market Street, Plymouth.
Haydon, Benjamin, Printer, Bookbinder and Stationer.
—U.B.D.
Andrews (W.), pp. 28, 106.
Retired from Exeter Flying Post and entered into business in
Plymouth, "there being then no printer there," Nov. 7, 1765.
Haviland (W.)
SOLD BY
W. HAVILAND,
Nephew and Successor to Haydon
and Cobley,
CORNER of OLD-TOWN,
PLYMOUTH.
Small printed label within fancy border (about 1820.)
Haydon (M.) — see s.v. B. Thorn & Son, Exeter.
Haydon (R.)
Sold by
R. HAYDON,
Bookseller and Stationer,
facing the Pope's-head,
Pike-Street, Plymouth.
Small printed label within fancy border, date about 1790.
Ratcliff (T.)
A paragraph in The Clique, Mar. 6, 1909, speaks of a MS. on
Shorthand, 1658, by T. Ratcliff, a Bookseller and Stationer at Plymouth,
which had recently been sold to a collector in Edinburgh. I have been
quite unable to trace either the MS. or the purchaser.
Rogers (Mr.), p. 83.
G. ROGERS,
stationer and Bookseller,
CIRCULATING LIBRARY,
Higher Broad Street, Corner of
Holy-Cross-Lane, Plymouth.
N.B. Perfumeries and
Patent Medicines.
A small oval printed label within fancy border, date about 1780.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 137
Mr. Spencer, printer of the Exeter Chronicle, or as it is
fresh dubbed, the Plymouth and Cornish Flying Gazette. —
Exeter Flying Post, Jan. 13, 1764.
Wallis (James), p. 29. — Mr. Wallis, Bookseller in Ply-
mouth.— Exeter Flying Post, Sept. 2, 1763.
SOLD BY
JAMES WALLIS,
Bookseller and Stationer,
In Market-Street,
PLYMOUTH.
Small printed label within fancy border (about 1780.)
Weatherley (R.), and
Whitfeld (H.) p. 82.
A New Form of Prayer, to be used .... upon Friday the
Twenty-seventh of February next, being the day appointed for a General
Fast .... By his Majesty's Special Command. Sold by R.
Weatherley and S. Whitfeld, in Plymouth ; and P. Maurice, Plymouth-
Dock 1778.
St. Austell.
PoMERY (W.), p. 106. — Pomery, Walter, senior, Bookseller,
Stationer and Scrivener (W. Pomery, junior, was a
draper.)— C/.S.D.
Sold by
W. POMERY,
Book-seller, Stationer
& Scrivener,
St. Austle.
Small oval stencilled label within a border, taken from a book dated 1790.
South Molton.
Huxtable (J.), p. 118.
Huxtable,
Copper Plate & Letter Press
PRINTER,
Book Binder, Book Seller &c,
SOUTHMOLTON.
Small printed label within fancy border (about 1800).
Stonehouse.
Huss, [ ], p. 41.
T. HUSS begs leave to inform [etc.] at his
LIBRARY, CHAPEL STREET, STONEHOUSE,
WHERE MAY BE HAD
Almanacks, Pocket Books, &c. for the Year.
Abridged from printed label with border.
I have a note that Huss died May 31, 1824. The U.B.D. describes
him as a stationer.
138 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
Tavistock.
COMMINS [ .]
BOUGHT AT
COMMINS'S
Warehouse for Books and Stationary,
TAVISTOCK.
t^ A Circulating Library.
Printed label within border, date about 1800.
Tiverton.
Parkhouse, Hannah, Bookseller.
Salter, William, Printer and Perfumer. — U.B.D.
Parkhouse (Philip), p. ii8.
Sold by PHILIP PARKHOUSE,
Bookseller,
Near the White Stone in Tiverton,
Who also sells Paper Hangings for Rooms,
Prints and Pictures of all Sorts,
And other Stationary WARES.
Printed label, fancy border at top and bottom, date about 1780.
Another small printed label, "Parkhouse, Printer, Bookbinder,
Bookseller, Stationer, &c., Tiverton," removed from book dated 1820.
Totnes.
This BOOK belongs to
DAW'S,
CIRCULATING LIBRARY, TOTNES;
where may be had the Following
GENUINE PATENT MEDICINES, &c.
[list follows.]
8vo label printed on the back of portion of an advertisement of Insurance
Policies of the Dorchester and Sherborne Militia Insurance Society — "Policies
issued by Mr. Dawe, Bookseller, Totness" (about 1806).
Truro.
Harvey, William, Printer and Stationer.
Tregoning & Philip [? Philp] , Printers and Stationers.
l^^»<)C.p.^2), ^1- —U.B.D.
113. Kittery, Devon (IX., p. 48, par. 44). — The following
information may prove of interest to your correspondent.
The Ordnance Survey Map of Devon, Sheet cxxviii., S.W.,
shows " Kettery Court " near Kingswear. From local guide
books and directories I gather that this is a private residence
now in the occupation of Archibald Leslie Hine- Haycock,
Esq. Kettery Point is not shown on the survey, but as the
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 139
house appears to be quite near the sea, it is reasonable to
suppose that a point near would be given such a name.
Shapleigh is a well-known Devon name. Your corres-
pondent should institute enquiries at Kingswear, say from
the Town Clerk, as to the age of " Kettery Court " and its
past occupiers and owners, and from the incumbent of the
parish church as to the connection of the family of Shap-
leigh with Kingswear in the 17th century. Veritas.
114. Exeter Cathedral Library (VIII., p. 175, par. 147;
p. 208, par. 170). — My note on the lost MSS. of the Exeter
Cathedral Library drew a reply from Mrs. Rose-Troup.
Since then I have obtained from Mr. H. E. Craster, the
Bodleian Librarian, who is especially concerned with the
MSS., and Professor Haverfield, further particulars as to the
MSS. presented to the Bodleian Library by the Dean and
Chapter of Exeter in 1602, and the following is a complete
list of those now existing at the Bodleian : —
N- Catilo^lfl pSiarW. Subject. Date.
1 2757 Bodl. 683 Gregory's Moralia 12th Cent.
2 1941 „ 273 Augustine on Psalms, p. iii 12th
3 2123** „ 253 Gregory's Moraliaf 12th
4 2740 ,, 691 Augustine, De Civ. Dei 12th
5 1942 „ 274 Augustine, Epistolae 12th
6 2733 „ 380 Aquinas, Catena Aurea 14th
7 2399 „ 338 Somnium, Viridarii 15th
8 2120 ,, 229 Augustine, De Verb. Dom. nth
9 1939 „ 237 Augustine, Super Paulum 12th
10 1924 „ 150 Augustine, Opuscula 13th
11 2129 „ 314 Gregory, Sermons 12th
12 2448 „ 293 Speculum Juris 14th
13 2677 ,, 810 Canons 12th
14 2056 Auct. D 1, 18 Bible I2th
15 2770 Bodl. 748 Petrus, Comestos 14th
16 2631 „ 717 Jerome on Isaiah 12th
17 2435 „ 287 "Vincent of Beauvaix 14th
18 2713 „ 830 Grosseteste, Sermons 14th
19 2741 ,, 289 Augustine on Psalms, pars ii 12th
20 2727 „ 736 Barthol. de Pisis 15th
21 2736 „ 739 Ambrose, de Fide 12th
22 2711 „ 732 Bede, on Luke and Mark 12th
23 2675 ., 579 Leofric's Missal^ lo-iith
24 2765 „ 744 Ricardus, de Media villa 14th
25 2226 „ 319 Isidore, de miraculis Christi§ loth
t Three parts, iv-vi. J A Leofric Book. § ? A Leofric Book, No. 53.
140 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
No. in 1697 Modern
Catalog:ue. Press Mark.
Subject.
26
2759
„ 815
Augustine, Confessions
I2th „
27
1920
„ 148
Augustine, de cons. Evang
I2th „
28
2122
„ 311
Gregory's Penitentialae, etc.
loth „
29
2640
„ 792
Ambrose on Virginity, etc.
I2th „
30
2720
„ 829
Ringstede on Proverbs
14th „
31
2225
„ 394
/Isidore, de Fide Cathol.
IJerome, contra Jovinian
nth „
I2th „
32
2712
„ 315
John of Salisbury, etc.
15th „
33
2433
„ 286
Du'J^s Scotus
14th .,
34
2745
„ 377
Aquinas, Catena Aurea
14th „
35
2731
„ 738
Trivet on the Psalms
14th ,.
36
1899
„ 135
Augustine, contra Faustum
I2th „
37
2013
Bodl. 479
Bede, de Tabernaculo
I2th „
38
1923
„ 201
Augustine, opuscula
I2th „
39
2681
., 813
Augustine on S. John
I2th „
40
2456
„ 463
Astrological
14th „
41
2719
Auct. D 2, 16
Gospels*
loth „
42
2015
Bodl. 162
Bonaventura, Meditations
14th „
43
1918
„ 147
Athanasius Opuscula
I2th „
44
2134
Auct. D 3, 10
Gloss on Genesis
13th „
45
2632
Bodl. 718
Egberts, Penitentialf
10th „
46
2771
., 749
Barthol. de Glanville
14th „
47
2012
„ 206
Ambrose, Hexaemeron
V^a^i^,*^ Aurea legenda
I2th „
48
2218
n 389
15th „
49
2098
Auct. D I, 13
Gloss on St. Paul
I2th „
50
2603
Bodl. 707
Gregory on Ezekiel
nth „
51
2663
„ 804
Augustine, contra Mendacium,
etc. I2th „
52
2095
„ 190
Gregory, Dialogues
i2th „
53
2224
H 393
Isidore, etc.
/ Kilwardby, etc.
iwycliffe, de Mandatis
15th ,r
14th „
54
2245
„ 333
15th „
55
2100
,, 193
Gregory, Epistles
I2th „
56
2732
„ 318
Flores Psalterii
14th „
57
1903
„ 137
Ambrose. Opuscula
I2th „
58
2441
„ 290
Gratian's Decretum
14th „
59
2447
„ 256
Joh. Andree, Comment
14th „
60
2104
Auct. D 2, 7
Gregory, Opuscula
I3th-I4th „
61
1940
Bodl. 272
Augustine on Psalms, pars il
I2th „
62
2132
Auct. D I, 9
Gloss on Luke and John
13th „
63
2389
Auct. F 3, 7
Solinus and ^thicus
I2th „
64
2648
Bodl. 722
Holcot on Minor Prophets
15th „
65
2455
Auct. F I, 15
Boethius and Persius*
nth „
66
2123*
Bodl. 230
Gregory, Dialogues
I2lh „
67
2108
,. 494
j Gloss on John, Mark, etc.
iRic. de S. Victore on Ezek.
13th „
I2th „
68
2396
„ 449
Sermons
I2th-i3th „
With Leofric's inscription. f See later note.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 141
No.
No. in 1697 Modern
Catalogue. Press Mark.
Subject.
Date.
69
2234
!I
320
Jac. Januensis Sermons
15th „
70
I901
„
92
Ambrose, De of&c minist.'
I2th „
71
2634
.,
720
Gilbertus Anglicus, etc.
14th ..
72
1922
„
149
Augustine, Opuscula
I2th „
73
2609
„
708
Gregory's Pastoral*
nth „
74
2602
„
849
Bede on Canonical Epistlesf
9th „
75
2334
„
335
Peter Lombard's Sentences
14th „
76
2241
11
279
Holcote on Wisdom
14th „
77
2626
786
Medical
13th „
78
2739
„
301
Augustine on S. John
I2th „
79
2737
..
865
/Ric. Armachanus
iLib. Legum ecclesiast
15th „
nth „
80
2046
,,
482
Barthol, Exoniensis
13th „
81
2629
Auct.
Di,7
Gloss on Luke and John
13th „
82
2133
Auct.
Di, i:
Gloss on Acts — Apocal.
13th „
83
2337
Auct.
D2, 8
Gloss on Psalms
I2th „
84
2638
Auct.Dmf,2,
rCassianus de institut.
lApocalypse
loth „
nth „
85
2666
Auct.
F3,6
Prudentius*
nth „
86
2654
Bodl. 725
Comm. on S. Paul's Epistles
13th „
This only accounts for 86 of the 130 said to have been
given to the Bodleian, but they really represent more, as, for
instance, No. 85 represents three volumes of the Exeter
catalogue ; probably, also, No. 3 was counted as three, and
31, 67 and 79 were certainly counted as two, and probably
others. It will be seen from the list that there are only five
with the Leofric inscriptions, but there are also two others,
Nos. 25 and 74, that in Mr. Craster's opinion are also Leofric
books, though they no longer contain his usual anathema.
And though I am not in a position to form any opinion, not
having made a personal inspection of the MSS., I would
suggest that No. 45 may be another ; and as No. 85 corres-
ponds to Nos. 41, 42 and 43 in Warren's list in his edition
of the Leofric Missal, this would bring up the number of
Leofric books at the Bodleian to ten. Six other MSS.,
Nos. 8, 28, 31, 50, 79 and 84, are eleventh century or earlier,
and one or more of these may be possibly Leofric books,
though there is none we can identify with the list as given
by Warren, unless 50, Gregory on Ezekiel, is the Book of
Ezekiel, No. 44, in Warren's list. But the New Summary
Catalogue of the Bodleian MSS., which is about to be pub-
lished, may throw some light on these points, and Mr. Craster
* With Leofric's inscription. f Probably a Leofric Book, No. 51.
142 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
informs me that there is a full discussion of the Leofric books
in Nicholson's Early Musical MSS. in the Bodleian.
I should be much obliged if anyone who has more time
to devote to these points than I have, or the Librarian of
the Cathedral Library, would compare the above list with
the inventories of 1506 and 1327 or any other documents of
the Cathedral Library. S^^ f> . I// J. F. Chanter.
115. Calendars of Devon and Cornwall Wills (IX.,
par. 53, p. 57.) — The first issues were revised by a member
of the Council of the Devonshire Association ; the sub-
sequent ones by the transcriber. It should be remembered
that the very latest item copied from these old calendars
(which is not necessarily the spelling in the document)
was written more than a hundred years ago, when
every man made his own spelling, and had been doing
so time out of mind. Another important point, they were
printed for the British Record Society in a county remote
from the west, and although the transcriber wrote and
still writes a hand so plain that no man, though
printer, need err therein, it appeared that it was not
without some typographical wrestling that many of these
wild western place-names were finally set up. There was
regret felt that it was not possible, especially at the com-
mencement, to refer to original documents to correct obvious
if ancient slips of the pen such as the repetition of the name
Weymouth alluded to, and in transcribing subsequent calen-
dars, the courteous officials, when it could be done without
unduly interfering with public business, occasionally looked
up and produced a document to settle a doubtful point. The
transcriber also undertook to place a mark over every " U "
to prevent it being printed as " N," a frequent misprint in
topographical works, but the printer used his own discretion
notwithstanding. Concerning Launceston I doubt whether
the spelling of this place-name is really fixed even at this
late date, for I read a sign post near that town inscribed
" To Lanson."
A gentleman described the first calendar issued (Prin-
cipal Registry of the Bishop of Exeter) as useless,
because it did not contain all the wills in the Exeter
Registry, and remarked to the writer, who was busy
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 143
transcribing another calendar, that he had seen wills that
were not in it, and could prove it. Any explanation was
impossible. He was as indignant as the farmer's wife
who abused the clerks at the Registry for not producing
her husband's will when she offered the shilling fee.
Instead of showing the will they asked questions. When
and where did he die ? This trifling naturally made her
furious. " Die ! " she shouted, " 'Ee aint dead, 'ee's over in
the market. Ee came in last Thursday a purpose to make
his will, but he won't tell me what's in it. I knaw 'ee made
un and I knaw you got un. Now why can't 'ee let me zee
un ? There's the shilling ! You won't, that's what it is. I
knaws you got un, so there ! " The good lady had not grasped
Hebrews ix, 16. Nux.
116, Drake and Skeffington (IX., p. 8g, par. 79.) —
I thought Mr. Skinner might like to have an attempt made
to verify the quarterings of the impaled Skeffington with
Bayley : (i) Skeffington, as in the text. {2) Should be,
Azure a lend cotised between six mullets or, Oldbeiffe.
Leicester Visitation says: John Skeffington = Margaret, d.
and h. to William Oldebeffe, by Margaret, d. and h. to
Richard English (Ermine a lend azure), this should be the
3rd quartering. (3) Peck, really Peche, Or three eagles
displayed sable, so given in the pedigree ; but in his nephew's
quarterings on the same page, the eagles are gules, whilst
the pedigree of Peck in the same Visitation gives quite a
different coat and, I think, one more trustworthy. Sir John
Skeffington of London = d. and h. of Peck, he ob. s.p.
(4) I think this is intended for, Azure a fess per nebidee or
and sable, between three laurel leaves erect of the second, Leueson.
William Skeffington of co. Salop = Johanna filia Jacobi
Leueson. This quartering does not come into the Leicester
Visitation ; she is not stated to be an heiress, but as she
married two more husbands she had plenty of time to
become one. (5) Leicester Visitation says this is the 12th
quartering, but Betham, iv., 185, gives it as the 6th quarter
and impaling, Sable three eaglets displayed argent, a crescent
for difference, Peche. So this is the 3rd quarter given as
Peck, just the reverse of iii. in the text ; 5, however, is given
with the escallops or, not argent, as Childe, and in Betham
144 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
without blazon as Child, and as the pedigrees give no such
marriage, presumably it was brought in by one of the other
quarterings, though Peche was a direct marriage. (6) is
Jenney, the birds being Cornish choughs proper, as the
beaked and legged gules proves ; there is no direct marriage
given in the pedigrees. (7) would be Oldbeiffe ; but it is
very unlikely that it is rightly quartered here; most likely
copied from a shield that went backwards in the proper way,
instead of one coming down to modern times. (8) If this
blazon is correct and represents the family, it would be
Prestwood of Salop or Staffordshire ; but I can find nothing
in the pedigrees to prove it. This does not come among the
19 quarterings in Betham, but he says he has heard of or
seen one with 30 quarterings, of which he gives no list.
It seems to me the earlier shields are correct ; the rest are
jumbled up out of any sequence. F. Were.
117. Sigdure Lane, Kingsbridge. — From Hawkins'
History of Kingsbridge and Salcombe (18 19) I learn that a street
on the east side of Fore Street, Kingsbridge, " was formerly
called Sigdure Lane, since that, by corruption. Sugar Lane,
and more recently Dunscombe Street." Was Sigdure a local
personal name, and if so, was the name of Sugary Cove, near
Dartmouth, derived from it? Ethel Lega-Weekes.
118. Oak Panel from Kingsteignton Church. — I
have an oak panel which is reported to have come from
Kingsteignton Church. It measures about ift. 9in. x i3in.,
and is carved with a conventional design, surmounted by the
initials " I. K. P." and the date 1663. Can any of your
readers inform me what position this panel occupied in the
church and to whom the initials belonged ? Curiosus II.
119. Norman Surnames (IX., p. 93, par. 84.) — The
reason why the prefix " de " occurs very seldom after the
latter part of the 14th century is that after that period
surnames were becoming general, and it was no longer
necessary to distinguish a man by the name of the town
or village he came from. It must be remembered that
" de " before a rrian's name generally means from not of,
so De Molton meant simply a man from South or North
Molton. J. F. Chanter.
Ash c^Hzitfon
:^^H8(HUTT0N
Bar^^mgi, CatcotV IScme of fh^s firm's Viir.oiH3 -marks S^9iie.eta do^c Conrjexiorj
.(.o.e)
.LONDONi
W. CooKe^j.
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Plate I.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 145
120. Notes on West-Country Pewterers. — In my
researches in connection with my work on " Pewterers
and Pewter-marks," which it is hoped to publish when the
war is over, I have come across the names of several
West-country pewterers and some of their marks which it
may be of some interest to readers of this journal to have
recorded in its pages.
Somewhere about the year 1913 there appeared in
D. & C. N. &• Q. a request for information concerning the
pewterers of Devon, Somerset and Cornwall, a request
which, unfortunately, was not productive of great results,
but one of the few replies received, together with subsequent
dates gleaned from an entirely different quarter, may serve
to show how much may be gained by united effort in a
given sphere.
On i8th July, 1913, Mr. J. S. Amery wrote Mr. H.
Tapley-Soper — names needing no introduction to readers
of this journal — as follows : —
*' Have you Dolbeare as a pewterer in Ashburton ?
I believe Parham, London, was also an Ashburton
pewterer, a successor of Dolbeare, as the Parhams
had the same house in Ashburton."
This information, kindly forwarded to me by Mr. Tapley-
Soper, was duly recorded in my notes. Time has passed
and still the name Dolbeare remained " awaiting further
information " until a few days ago, when Mr. Walter
Churcher, of London, the well-known collector and authority
on old pewter, sent on to me a rubbing of a mark found
on some pewter plates, with the query " Do you know
Dolbeare as a pewterer ? " On looking up my notes I find
the name recorded, but with no further particulars than those
given above. Now, however, one is able to record this
maker with full details of his mark (q.v. Plate i).
Thus one more small point is cleared up, one more
infinitesimal ray of light cast upon the past !
In days such as the present one may ask — Of what
moment are such trifles ? The reply must be that at the
moment they are of little consequence, but the present
conditions are not, we pray, destined to last indefinitely,
and a second opportunity of recording this "ray of light"
may not present itself.
L
146 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
That there must have been at one time an important
colony of pewterers in Bristol seems beyond doubt, for in
Mr. Welch's History of the Worshipful Company of Pewterers
of London, one finds in 1728-9 the following : —
"Many complaints were again received at this time of
the bad quality of pewter made at Bristol, especially
guinea basons, but the Company hesitated to exercise
their authority by sending a deputation to hold a
search so far from London." (The italics are mine).
That some of these Bristol and West-country pewterers
used the word " London " and " made in London " on their
wares is proved by reference to Plate i, where the word
" London " is included in the touch of Burgum and Catcott,
who we know to have been a Bristol firm. This again is
referred to in the same work as follows : —
" 1 740- 1. A committee reported on 24th September
that nothing could be done to prevent country pew-
terers from striking 'London' and ' made in London '
on their wares, without application to Parliament."
Much information should be available amongst the old
Guild records of Bristol, if any such are in existence, and I
commend this suggestion to some keen local antiquary who
may have the necessary time at his disposal. Possibly also
in Cornwall one might look for records of pewterers in the
Stannaries districts, as also at Barnstaple and Exeter, for
further information concerning Devonshire pewterers.
The following further names of West-country pewterers
(with Bristol) and the illustrations of their marks Avhere
known, may act as a stimulus to others in possession of
pieces bearing unrecorded local marks (or touches as they
were technically called), to furnish me with rubbings of the
same for inclusion in my larger work referred to above, and
on which I have been engaged for many years. Good
sketches or rubbings, both for preference, are of great
service, but poor sketches are not of so much use as poor
rubbings. The marks of Sampson Hodge, Kerslake, Sanmel
Lee and John Webber, junr., on the plates which follow are
made from poor sketches which, had they been accompanied
by the poorest of rubbings, would at least have enabled me
to vouch for their being as correct as an unskilful penman
has endeavoured to make the remainder.
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Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 147
In only one instance in the following list have I any
doubt as to its correct place in this list — Edgar and Son
(or Co.) — but the circumstantial evidence that they were
Bristol pewterers is so great I have ventured to include it.
(A t preceding a name signifies that an illustration of the
maker's mark is given.)
fAsh and Hutton. Bristol, c. 1760.
IBurgum and Catcot. Bristol, c. 1770. Boswell, in his Life
of Dr. Johnson, records their meeting
" George Catcot the pewterer " at
Bristol on 29th April, 1776.
Butcher, James. Pewterer, of Bridgewater, Somerset.
Will proved 15 Sep., 1698, at Taunton.
fButcher, James. Pewterer, of Bridgewater, Somerset.
Will proved 24 Oct., 1720, at Taunton.
fCockey, W. Totnes, c. 1740.
Daw, Richard. Exeter, c. 1780.
f Dolbeare, J. Ashburton, ? c. 1750.
+ Edgar and Co. ? Bristol.
fEdgar and Son. ? Bristol.
fEvans, Hum. Exeter, c. 1740.
tFothergills. Bristol.
tGauls. Exeter.
Harris, William. Buried at Barnstaple 3 Dec, 1625.
Worked 1608-25.
Heywood, Robert. Buried at Barnstaple 14 Jan., 1623.
Worked 1605-22.
Tiverton, c. 1707.
i Hodge, Sampson
(? Samuel),
f Hoskyn, John.
fHoskyn, Henry.
Johns, John.
fKerslake.
Knowles, John.
fLee, Samuel.
Ley, John.
Mitchell, James.
Truro, later than 1735.
c. 1730.
Pewterer, of Bristol, mentioned in
1698 in the will of James Butcher,
of Bridgewater.
Creditor], c. 1720.
Bristol, c. 1650.
Buried at Barnstaple. Worked c. 1720.
Buried at Barnstaple 30th June, 1733.
Worked c. 1705-33.
Penzance. In 1681 he had served a
seven years' apprenticeship to a
148 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
t Mortimer.
Rogers, Henry.
? Sanders, Simon.
f Webber, John.
f Webber, John,junr.
tWilliams.
Williams, A.
Willoughby, Roger,
the elder,
f Wilshire, T.
f Wilshire, T. and W.
pewterer in Penzance. Was refused
the freedom of the Company of
Pewterers of London at a Court held
5th Oct., 1681.
Exeter, 1 c. 1750. His mark (No. i)
appears on a piece engraved 1740;
No, 2 on a tankard bearing a Wm. IV.
Excise stamp.
Skewis, Cornwall. In the Collection
of Mr. Chas. G. J. Port, F.S.A., of
Worthing, is a wood engraving which
records the hanging in 1735 of this
man for the murder of two Sheriff's
officers and three others.
Tradition records that he was a maker
of pewter spoons, who formerly lived
at Langtree, near Bideford. (See
Guide to the Charbonnier Collection in
Taunton Castle Museum.)
Barnstaple, c. 1650-1700.
Barnstaple, c. 1680- 1735.
Falmouth, c. 1720.
? ,
Bristol, c. 1670.
Bristol, c. 1790.
Bristol, c. 1800.
One might here perhaps direct attention to the similarity
of the devices in many of the marks illustrated, which may
point to some succession in business. It might be possible
that Burgum and Catcott succeeded to the business of Ash
and Hutton and retained their Rose and Crown and Hard
Metal marks, being themselves succeeded by Fothergills,
who used the clasped hands' device of the former. This, of
course, is mere conjecture which a little searching of local
records might tend to prove or disprove. Again one finds
an affinity of design in the marks of Hum. Evans of Exeter,
J. Ferris and Co., and John Webber of Barnstaple; whilst
those of J. Dolbeare and Gauls of Exeter, are the only ones
suggesting similarity with the designs of the London pew-
terers' marks. It is an amazing fact that of all the hundreds
On avl;&kfTorhW^sT-Coarari\).e.lo80-
Orj a pattn. from Wells.
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Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 149
of country pewterers whose marks are known, there are few,
if any, which one could mistake for London marks, diverse
though the latter are, a more flamboyant style being as a
rule adopted with a greater tendency to advertising. The
mark of Dolbeare being one of the most restrained in style of
all the country marks I have seen, is at the same time most
pleasing and seems eminently suited for pewter ware.
Without direct proof that the marks on Plates iv., v. and vi.
should occupy a place in a Hst of West-country pewterers, the
evidence to hand and the frequency with which their pieces
have been met with in the district, are sufficient to justify
the belief that further information will eventually establish
their right to inclusion therein. It is desired that anyone
having such information will not wait for the next number
of this paper, but will communicate direct with the author
at Foden Road, Walsall, Staffs.
'3-<^l^<n)(-p . l^^^ Howard H. Cotterell,
121. Church Bands (IX., p. 124, par. 106). — I am
informed that in Peter Tavy parish church, during the
vicariate of the Rev. Thomas Gibbons up to the year 1870,
the following instruments assisted regularly in the church
service: ist violin, Joseph Row; 2nd violin, Mark Rickard ;
" bass viol," Robert Prout. Other instruments were used
on special occasions— a bassoon frequently.
The following extract is taken from the Illustrated Western
Weekly News of Nov. nth, 1916, p. 10:
" Two interesting old musical instruments, with ancient Devonshire
associations, are being added to Exeter Museum. They are a ' serpent '
(a brass instrument) and clarinet, which were many years ago played
in Ashhurton Church. The ' serpent ' was last year sold among the
effects of the father of Mr. T. H. Veale, of Paignton, and came into
the hands of the Homeland Association, who, after exhibiting it, sold
it to the Exeter Museum authorities. Mr. Veale, having in his possession
the clarinet, sold it to the same association, and both instruments are
now in the hands of the Museum authorities."
The description of the " serpent " as a brass instrument
is strange, because it is generally described as consisting of
"conical sections of wooden tube held together by a
covering of leather." R. Pearse Chope.
The extract quoted above is incorrect in describing the
*' serpent " recently purchased by the Exeter Museum as a
150 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
brass instrument. Like all instruments which bear this
-name, it consists of a wooden tube, covered with black
leather, about eight feet long, increasing conically from
five-eighths of an inch in diameter at the mouthpiece to
four inches at the open end. The name is obviously derived
from the curved form into which the tube is contorted. The
clarinet referred to was purchased direct from Mr. Veale and
presented to the Museum by Sir Chaning Wills, Bart. — Eds.
122. Prouse Memorials in Chagford Church (IX.,
p. 81, par. 77; p. 121, par. 104). — I think Mr. Were must
have overlooked two of my footnotes ; one (p. 85) explains
that of a large number of old deeds that came into the hands
of the late Rev. T. W. Whale, the earliest, dating from
c. 1280, confirm the pedigree of the Chagford branch of the
ProHZ family as given by Westcote, as well as of the last
members of the Gidleigh stock, from c. 1300 down to 1550;
the other (p. 88) shew that although Viwan, in his Prouz
pedigree, makes Honor, widow of Coplestone and second wife
of Humphrey Prouz of Chagford, to be the daughter of
Bellew, he rectifies the error in his Lippincott pedigree, by
stating that she is the daughter of fohn Lippincote of Wihhery
in Alvevdiscott. This is confirmed by marriage settlements
possessed by Mr. Whale. One of these is by John Cople-
stone of North Leigh, Cornwall, giving a jointure to Honor
Lippincott, daughter of John Lippincott of Wiherry in Alver-
discott, whom his son Richard is about to marry ; another
is by Humphrey Prouz of Chagford, on his marriage to
Honor, widow of Coplestone (in 1620), two trustees being
George Lippincott of Wibberry and Hercules Arscott of
Annery.
The omission by Colhy of the Pont alliance may surely
be disregarded, since Westcote, Pole, Vivian and others
place it between those of Ferrers and Wadecote. I note
that Vivian does not call the daughters of Wadecote,
Cruwys, Norton, Cole, or Cobbe heiresses, yet the family
arms of all of these are depicted on the Chagford shield.
Seeing that it would be impossible for anyone to mistake
the bisected Jordan almond in the illustration of this shield
for a bridge, I can only suppose Mr. Were's suggestion that
it "is really two arches of a bridge" to proceed from an
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 151
assumption that the form in the original was very indistinct,
and was mis-rendered by me ; but, in fact, it was quite clear,
and my drawing was from an exact tracing.
As " canting Arms " contain either the whole or part of
the surname, or allude to some characteristic or exploit of
the bearer, some of the Ponts bear a bridge — translatable
into the French pont ; but they also bear rainbows and two
wings conjoined, the latter displaying both curves and
points, as does the Jordan almond — "point" being the
nearest word to " Pont " in the English language.
Earlier connections of the Prouz family than those whose
arms are on this shield are interestingly discussed in Vols. iv.
and V. of D.&C.N.&Q. (Mrs.) C. Lega-Weekes.
123. AsHTON Parish Church (IX., p. 105, par. 92). —
The blazon of Cockworthy is weak because it duplicates
the ' sa,' unless these were dirty gules, when it would be
Cockworthy. To be Cochington, both the sables would have
to be dirty azure gules ; and if the chevron was dirty gules,
it would be Cocktree, which actually is nearer the writer's
blazon. Now see what genealogy says: — Pole, p. 192: John
of Chuderlegh = Susan, daughter and co-heir of William
de Compton ; this he also confirms, p. 280, by saying
that Susan's sister Jone was the other co-heir and
wife of Geffrey Gilbard (here John's name is Chiderlegh).
Pole does not enlighten us to a Cockington-Compton
marriage ; but says Sir James Cokinton was the last of
the family, and on p. 460 gives his coat as Argent a chevron
betwixt three cocks gules ; so there seems to be confusion
between Pole's Armory and this Cockinton paragraph. So
genealogy would say that the i and 4 should be John of
Chuderlegh and 2 and 3 de Compton, Sable a chevron ermine
betwixt 3 shovellers arg. If John of Chuderlegh assumed the
Cockinton coat, it would confirm the heraldry, but their
coats were all quite different ; what is wanted is a Cockinton-
Compton marriage to prove suggestions made. F. Were.
124. Inventory of the Goods of Henery Hampshire
[should be Humphrey] (II., p. 242, par. 198). — The original
parchment from which the late Dr. Brushfield copied this
valuable and interesting inventory of a Honiton tobacco
152 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
merchant of the seventeenth century has recently been added
to the Exeter City Library's collection of local manuscripts.
My immediate object in now drawing attention to it is to
correct several errors made by the transcriber, the most
important being in the name of the deceased merchant,
whom Dr. Brushfield gives as Hampshire, whereas a little
care would have revealed the fact that it is Humphrey.
The name as written at the head of the document is
certainly a little indistinct, but the signature at the foot,
viz., " Patience Humphry," ought to have been sufficient
to have prevented the learned Doctor making such a mistake.
The following minor corrections should also be noted. They
do not add much to the value of the document, but may
serve as a reminder that when old documents are copied
for publication it is essential, if they are to properly serve
their purpose as records of old spelling and customs, that
they should be transcribed with great care and accuracy.
It is regrettable to find that in this respect many of our
most able antiquaries are often very careless.
P. 243, line 6, for Hampshire read Humphrey.
,, ,, 10, for Dms. read Doms,
,, ,, 10, for followeth read ffolloweth.
,, >j II) for 1. s. d. read Y\. s. d.
,, ,, 12, for apparrell read aparrell.
„ ,, 27, for Amos[?] read Ames [?].
„ „ 32, for H [?] read Holland.
>> >> 33> for 31 00 00 read 31 10 00,
»> >» ZSi delete "on Bond" ihe first time it occurs in
this line.
»» >> 39> for 01 00 00 read 01 10 00.
,, ,, 41, for &c. [?] read As.
j> »j 43> foi" The Lease read One Lease.
P. 244, ,, 6, for 190 02 00 read 190 02 06.
»i »> 35> for Curtains read Curtaines.
,, ,, 48, for Bed read Bedd.
,, ,, 50, for pcell read pcell, i.e. parcell.
P. 245, ,, 3, for w read w"', i.e. with.
,, ,, 5, for Glass read Glasse.
,, ,, 40, insert "One" before "Tray."
P. 246, ,, 10, for Great read Greate.
,, ,, 20, for Hog-.s;:sheados read Hogfgsheades.
,, ,, 20, for Cabbinet read Cabinett.
,, ,, 37, for 1823 o 06 read 1823 01 06.
^ . . I / H. Tapley-Soper.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 153
125. Derivation of the Name Heavitree (IX., p. 127,
par. 108). — Very few etymologists have approached anything
like a convincing solution of this puzzling place-name. Some
attempts have been not only positively unscientific, but have
bordered on the positively ridiculous, as in the case of a
highly-learned and respected local antiquary of old, who
could write of the name Heavitree — " which dull name shows
it not ancient, but seems to come from sorrowful matter,
which we term heavy and sad : I take it, therefore, so to
be named for being the place where malefactors are ordi-
narily executed after the assizes and sessions." And T.
Westcote has had a long train of followers.
Another suggestion is that the " Hevetrove " of Domesday
means hive-tree ! And one given in a once high-class topo-
graphical work: — "The name (Heavitree) is said to have
been derived from its having been a place of execution, the
gallows being called heavy (i.e., grievous) tree" I need
illustrate this unwisdom no further.
Other folk have rejected the possible Anglo-Saxon origin
of the name, and have sought to assign a Celtic or British
origin to it. When they can show that Heavitree was ever
known or ever written Treheavy, or Treaven, or anything
like these in ancient days, then we may begin to consult
our Celtic dictionaries.
My own opinion, after much consideration, is that the
name is distinctly and unequivocally Anglo-Saxon, con-
sisting of the adjectival prefix Heavi-, and the substantival
suflSx -tree.
It is maintained by those who favour a British origin for
the name, that the suffix means other than it spells in
plain English — forgetting that it would not be where it
stands were it plain and ordinary Celtic. I have at hand no
example of the name written in unquestionably Anglo-Saxon
days. But we may fairiy assume it was pretty much the
same as the Heuetruua of the Devonshire Domesday and
the Hevetrove of the Exchequer — transposed respectively
Hevetrowa and Hevetrove by Mr. Brooking-Rowe. I
think he would have done better had he made the Exchequer
name Hevetroue — the u and the v being constantly inter-
changeable in the later Anglo-Saxon and even in modern
English times ; and u is certainly intended here.
154 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
Taking the suffix, the substantival part in A.-S. place-
names, first, the earliest I have are -truua and -troiie, two
spellings of manifestly the same origin when applying to the
same object. A reference to Bosworth's Aug. -Sax. and
Eng. Dictionary will give us the following as used in the
earliest times for the large or huge plant we call a tree : —
treo, treow, treu, triow, triu, triw, tryw, &c. Amid the
jumble of the vowels in these words and their inflections
for case the first, with its eo, sounded as the Saxon y and
our ee — perhaps assisted by the Danish invaders' trae —
ultimately became the general name for a tree, and was
thus spelt, remaining so to the present day.
Seeing that the pedigree of the word can be so plainly
worked out, and that the traditional meaning has been, until
quite recently, always in accordance with it, there is left
extremely little ground on which to build any fancy theory
of this frequent element in English place-names at which
so many etymologists seem to shy, as if far too common-
place for their regard.
The prefix Heavi is certainly more difficult, at first sight,
to apprehend. In the earliest - the Domesday — spellings it
is Heve, of course with a two-syllabled sounding. And it
is the same in the Feudal Aids names as well as in the
Bishops' Registers of the 13th and 14th centuries. I cannot
at this moment assign or date the first use of heavi to repre-
sent the heve in the name Heavitree, and neither of them
appears in Bosworth ; but they are evidently phonetically
the same, and intended to convey the same meaning.
The clue is given us in the name of Mamhead as
found in Domesday. It is Msimmeheve. Heavi or Heve
evidently represents the word Head. Again referring to
Bosworth, we find hevet or hevod as alternative spellmgs
for hedfod, the A.-S. word for the modern English head.
In the Bishops' register of 1262 we have Mamhead
represented by M.3.\mneheved, which was doubtless the
common pronunciation of the time of the root substan-
tive hedfod — the head or top point of man or of any other
erect object. In 1410 we have it actually Mammehed.
One other example only I may use to make the demon-
stration certain. There is a well-known and common
place-name, Donhead or Downhead, which explains itself.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries, 155
It is also the ancient name of Launceston, and it appears
in Saxon times both as 'Dunhevede and Dunhevete. In
Somerset and Wilts, places now called Donhead or Down-
head were, according to Kemble's Ang.-Sax. Charters,
Diinhedfod. We therefore have the Heavi of our place-name
the equivalent phonetically of the exact A.-S. heafod, and
the less exact representatives hevede and hevete.
Now, if we place either of them as prefix to the word
for tree, we can see at once how the original name Hedfodtreow,
as I take it to have been, became Hevetruua, Hevetroue,
and ultimately Heavitree. It is found Hevetre in 1348 in
the Episcopal Registers.
So much for the derivation as I conceive it. But there
must also be some reasonable explanation required ; and we
are helped to it by certain other compound words of Anglo-
Saxon literature. A metropolis was a Heafodburh or Heafod
stow ; a cathedral was a Heafod cirice ; a patriarch was a
Heafod faeder ; a head man, a leader, or a general, was a
Heafod mann. And we are well acquainted now in schools
with the chief master as the Head-master or High-master.
I take it that the name Heavitree meant and means nothing
more nor less than one of two things, either a tree at the
head of a hill or promontory, or a specially tall or grand
tree which was a notable landmark of ancient days, around
which the parish of Heavitree is now clustered, and the
position of which may still possibly be designated by a
study of the parish map and its accompanying book of
field-names. I incline to the latter view.
If it be regarded as a singular name for a place, I need
only suggest the Devon " Langtree " as another such.
There is an estate in Manaton called " Heatree," an exact
equivalent to Heavitree. There is also a place called
" High Trees" at Savernake ; and a village " Hauts Arbres "
a mile or two south of Gravelines near Calais. But we
retain the affix perfect in " Heavywood " farm, two and a
half miles south of Reigate ; and again in the personal
name " Heaviside," to be found in the Clergy List; simple
enough when explained on the theory I have offered,
which I submit gladly to the approval or criticism of
D.&C.N.&Q. readers. ^^ „ Geo. T. Llewellin.
156 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
126. Devon Sessions Rolls. Midsummer, 1693.
Endorsed " Hemyock Fire."
2 June, 1693. Mr. Rich: Forst, three dweUing-
houses 73 foot long and 20 foot wide, besides
barnes and stables and other out-houses, loss
amount .....
Humphrey Moses, 3 dwelling-houses 97 foot long
and 20 foot wide ....
Robert Borrow, i dwelling-house 31 foot long
and 20 foot wide ....
Amboras Sarle, i dwelling-house 32 foot long and
20 foot wide ....
John Dalling, i dwelling-house 33 foot long and
14 foot wide ... -
John Baillif, i dwelling-house 18 foot square
Jeremiah Fetters, 2 dwelling-houses 54 foot long
and 19 foot wide, besides out-houses
John Kelland, i dwelling-house 36 foot long and
18 foot wide, besides out-houses
John Scadding, 2 dwelling-houses 43 foot long
and 22 foot wide, besides barnes, stables and
other out-houses .... /'150 os.
Susana Marcy, i dwelling-house 29 foot long,
19 foot wide .... ^30 OS.
The Church house, 21 foot long, 20 foot wide - ;^25 os.
John Somerhaies, 8 dwelling-houses, besides
barnes, stables, stalles, linidges {sic) and
other out-houses .... ;^396 os.
^150
OS.
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(goods) - ;^o69o I OS.
(Certified by): — ;^i7i4 oos.
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J ' carpenters.
William Morgan, j
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Lawrence Mannld, )
The Damage of Loss of Goods.
John Turke - - - ^30 os,
Barnard Hodge - - - ;^i5 os.
John Scadding ... ;^250 os.
John Kelland - - - ;^2o
OS.
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Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 157
Samuel Clarke
John Somerhayes -
John Bayley
John Dulling
Humphrey Moses
Ezikiah Borrow -
Thomas Borrow -
Mary Moore
Robert Borrow
Ambrose Searle
James Clarke
Nicholas Wood
Susana Masy
Elizabeth Moore -
Aaron Scadding
Joan Clarke
Parish goods
Total is
(Note. — This is an exact copy — total is incorrect).
J. Manfield.
127. Crest of Strode of Devon (IX., p. 128,
par. no). — The identification of the savin tree with the
yew is interesting, but without further evidence it is hardly
convincing. The savin is a well-known medicinal shrub,
Juniperus Sahina, and was certainly known under that name
in Devonshire in the eighteenth century, for it occurs twice
in the Exmoor Scolding, in connection with its use for medicinal
purposes : " How many times have es . . . . a zeed tha
pound Savin, to make Metcens, and Leckers, and Cau-
cheries, and Zlotters ? " (/. 183 of Elworthy's Edn., 1879).
No explanation of the word was given in the original
Glossary, either because it was too well-known to need
any, or because the compiler was ignorant of its meaning,
but the above identification was supplied by Mr. Elworthy.
According to Handle Holme's Academy of Armory, both the
savin and the yew were armorial charges, and, therefore, if
the yew were meant, it is difficult to understand why it
should be described as " a savin tree." Besides, my limited
knowledge of heraldry leads me to assume that, if the yew
158 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
had been really intended, it would have been described as
•'« savin tree frudcd ppv.,'' instead of "a savin tree ppr. friided
gules,'' seeing that gules is the natural or " proper " colour
of the fruit of the yew tree. According to Holme, the yew
was borne by the name of Jewen, and it is described as " very
like the Firr Tree, having long small or narrow leaves set on
either side of all the branches. The berries of this tree
are red, growing close to the branch on short foot stalks "
(vol. ii., p. 52). The savin tree is stated to be an evergreen
shrub, " like leaved to the Firr, and the fruit round like to
an apple" (vol. ii., p. 49). What tree is here referred to is
not quite clear, but it is certainly not the yew. The name
savin or savin tree is, indeed, applied to several trees or
shrubs resembling Jtiniperus Sahina, no less than eight (chiefly
foreign) being enumerated in the Neiv English Did. (in-
cluding the stinking cedar or stinking yew, but not the
common English yew). It would be interesting to know
not only the precise localities in which the name is still
employed (" G. S." does not mention this), but also the
particular trees or shrubs to which it is applied.
•2,^^ f P- /7^.'77 ■ R- Pearse Chope.
128. Hunt Family of Devonshire (IX., p. 21, par. 19,
et ante). — Tho. Hunt is a witness to a bond entered into by
one " Christopher Locke of Totnes, paynter," with the
Feoffees of Kingsbridge, 24 Feb., 1653. {Kingsbridge Feoffees
Muniments.)
1658, June 6 — died Sigaima Hunt, wiffe of Thomas Hunt.
1659, Sept. 2 — died Thomas Hunt.
[Kingsbridge Parish Register.)
1647, (?) Richard Hunt, North Bovey. Will.
1672, October— Richard Hunt, North Bovey. Test.
(MS.) Calendar of Wills proved in the Archdeaconry
of Totnes. (Probate Registry, Exeter.) E. L.- W.
129. Holcomb Rogus Parish Accounts: The Dog
Whipper. — In searching through the old parish accounts
for the parish of Holcomb Rogus, I find under the year
1728 and subsequently the following entry: — "Paid Rob*-
Smeeth his Sallary for Whipping the Doggs, 00 10 00."
Can any of your readers explain the meaning of this ?
%jU . P • '7 ^ ' / 75"' Fred Day.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 159
130. "Crowned." — Curious Entry from Kingsbridge
Parish Register.— Can any reader explain the meaning of
"crowned" in the following entry from Kingsbridge Parish
Register: — "1680. Susanna Mortymore being drowned in
the back broocke the 4th of Juen, was crowned the 5th day of
the same month and buried the same day." Extractus,
131. Angel Inn, Okehampton. — On page 103 of the
appendix Early Tours in Devon and Cornwall — " The Travels of
Cosmo III.," it is stated that " On alighting [at Okehampton]
his highness was received by the Mayor and Aldermen, and
put up at the Angel Inn." The writer, who has for some
time taken an interest in old hostelries, is acquainted with
all the present and many of the past inns of Okehampton,
but has never heard of the Angel. Can any reader say
where it was situated ? T. Oke.
132. Sir Nathaniel Hern. — Information is sought as
to why Sir Nathaniel Hern, of London, merchant, ims
knighted at Windsor on the gth August, 1674 ? What public
office, if any, did he fill in the City of London ? In the
church of St. Petrock, Dartmouth, on a tablet is the
following inscription : — " Sir Nathaniel Hern of ye city of
London K'- upon his sole cost brought a pipe of water for
ye supplying of Diwimys Conduit in this Parish. Anno
Dom. 1677." Any information on the foregoing queries
will be much appreciated... J , Sam. Hern.
133. Sittings in Churches (IX., pp. ii6-iig, par. 100).
— In addition to the valuable information given by Miss
Cresswell respecting church sittings, it may interest Mr. F.
Day and others to learn that in mediaeval times there were
provided in some churches stone seats other than the stone-
benches, or ' bench-tables,' running along the walls. These
were formed round the bases of the arcade-piers ; and
although they are of rare occurrence in comparison with
the stone bench-tables of the walls, yet Dr. Cox (see
English Church Furniture, p. 262) quotes three instances,
viz.: S. Michael's, Sutton Bennington, Notts; Coddington,
Notts ; and Lydd, Kent ; and I have seen another, not
mentioned by him, in the parish church of Moulton, Lines,
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of apparently thirteenth century date, or it may be earlier.
The seats are 15 ins. in depth, and i ft. 6 ins. above the
original floor level. But the most notable instance to hand
is that of the Cathedral Church of Exeter, the only English
Cathedral Church, I believe, in which this feature is found.
The bases of the nave piers are surrounded by a stone seat,
some 9 ins. in depth, and at a height varying from 1 ft.
to I ft. 4 ins, above the present floor level. The customary
arrangement of the nave chairs, close up to the piers, usually
prevents these base-seats from being as noticeable as they
might be. Edith K. Prideaux.
134. Devon and Cornwall Incumbents. — We have
from time to time been favoured by our readers with lists
of incumbents of Devon and Cornwall parishes, some of
which have appeared in our pages. It is felt, however, that
this form of publication is not the most suitable, consequently
the Editors have decided to hand any further lists which are
forwarded to the Librarian of the Exeter City Library for
preservation against the time when sufficient have been
collected to warrant serious consideration of publication as
an appendix to this magazine or in separate book form.
A small collection made by the late Dr. T. N. Brushfield,
and bequeathed by him to the Exeter Library, to which
Miss Beatrix Cresswell has made considerable additions
from her Devon Church Notes, will form a valuable nucleus
for the Devon collection, and Mrs. Rose-Troup has promised
a collection which she has for some years past been making.
Mr. Maxwell Batten has rendered valuable assistance with
Cornwall lists, but so far, the Duchy is not as well
represented as it should be. We appeal to our readers to
assist us with this work. There are scores of churches
with lists posted in them which it would only take a short
time to copy. 3^^ v.ii /<^ Eds.
Note. — The Editors regret that owing to want of space
a number of interesting contributions and replies have
unavoidably been held over. The Editors trust this delay
will not deter readers from continuing to submit con-
tributions, which they are assured shall be published at
the earliest possible opportunity.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. i6i
135. Church Bands — St. Petrock Stow Church
Band (IX., p. 124, par. 106; p. 149, par. 121). — A hundred
years ago St. Petrock Stow claimed, apparently not without
some reason, to possess one of the most capable church
bands and choirs in rural North Devon. But, like the
history of the Patron Saint himself, the ancient glories of
the music performed in the old gallery in St. Petrock's
shrine on the hill have to be largely taken on faith. But
this much is certain — that while the Rev. John Knight was
Rector the music was much above the average. Parson
Knight was himself no mean player on the bass viol, and
he had as choir leader a Mr. John Darke, who lived at
Nethertown Farm, and who was a very fine performer on
the same instrument. Winter or summer, rain or shine,
Farmer Darke would every Friday drive across the old
Deer Park which formed part of the demesne of Heanton —
now a farmhouse, but once a residence of the family of
which Lord Clinton is the head. This ancient manor house
was almost entirely destroyed by fire, and the present man-
sion was later erected upon an eminence across the valley
to the east, in the neighbouring parish of Huish. There is,
by the way, a very interesting brass in the church here to
the memory of Henry, fourth son of George RoUe, Esquire,
of Stevenstone, his wife and their family of ten sons and ten
daughters.
Mr. Darke's journey was made with almost clock-work
regularity, for on Friday evening the church band and
choir assembled for practice ; and to John Darke the
standard of the music rendered Sunday by Sunday was quite
as important a matter as the ingathering of his corn or the
hoeing of his turnips. It is recorded of him that when the
band at length went the way of all human contrivances, and
a new-fangled harmonium was installed in the church, he
sat hidden in the shadows of the Nethertown high pew and
wept audibly throughout the service. But John Darke
served his generation well, and his son William was a first-rate
violinist — indeed, but for an unfortunate weakness, he might
have gone far as a musician. The mantle of Elijah, how-
ever, fell upon a very capable Elisha in the person of Mr,
William Trace. Trace's father was for fifty years the village
postmaster, in the days when letters were an expensive
i62 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
luxury, and his son, who succeeded to the office, also held
it for a like period. It may be worth noting that his
daughter now holds the far more onerous post of sub-post-
mistress, and that a son, William, is the present parish clerk.
Mr. William Trace had real music in him. He could play
the violin and the tenor or bass viol with equal facility, and
as he played the air he would sing the bass part of the
Psalm or Anthem with accuracy and power. The range
and flexibility of his voice (he was able to produce the lower
C with fullness and ease) was no less remarkable than the
crispness and purity of his touch upon the strings. For
fifty years or more Trace was the mainstay of the church
band and choir, and for the long period of something like
forty years was the leader. In those days a Mr. Winnacott,
who was, so report has it, a native of South Zeal, on the
north-eastern fringe of Dartmoor, and who died, we believe,
at Chawleigh, was a remarkably able teacher and a con-
siderable musical power in North Devon. For many years
he was responsible for the training of twenty-one choirs in
the district, and of these Petrockstowe held first place in his
affections. Every Christmas Day and every Whit Sunday, as
these festivals came round, he spent in the parish, were it
by any means possible ; and on these days John Luxton?
the then parish clerk, would roll forth with especial gusto
the time-honoured formula, " Let us zing to the praaze an'
glowry o' God," which prefaced the announcement of the
piece of sacred music about to be performed. The congre-
gation would then turn and face westwards, but before the
harmony burst forth there was a solemn pause. Amid the
silence the parish clerk would descend from his seat below
the pulpit and make a stately progress to the gallery,
bearing with him his insignia of office — to wit, a Book of
Common Prayer of considerable bulk and weight. Unkind
people used to whisper that the anthem would have sounded
no worse had John Luxton remained in the clerk's seat and
kept his mouth closed. But such whispers, if he ever heard
them, John probably put down merely to " jellisness."
Under Winnacott's tuition William Trace made rapid pro-
gress ; and more than once was the offer made him of a
place in the choir of the Cathedral Church of St. Peter at
Exeter. But Trace was a home bird, and steadfastly resisted
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 163
all the endeavours which were made to lure him away from
the remote North Devon village in which he had first seen
the Hght. In the pre-harmonium days attendance at the
Friday evening practice was a point of honour with all band
and choir members ; and, in addition, every Sunday morn-
ing Farmer Darke and Mr. Trace might have been heard
at the latter's house in the village putting the finishing
touches to the music about to be performed in the sanctuary.
As far as is remembered there were three clarionet players ;
two of them were capable performers, the third was — well,
not quite as good. His playing would seem to have been
much on the same level as John Luxton's vocal efforts. One
of the trio, a gamekeeper, lived in a solitary cottage in the
middle of Hartleigh Wood. A portion of the walls of his
house still stands, but were it rebuilt it is extremely doubt-
ful whether anyone would now be induced to live there, and
one would certainly listen in vain for the sounds of the
clarionet issuing Peter Pan-wise from the wood's recesses.
Another valued helper was a Mr. Honey, of Holsworthy, an
excellent flute-player, who appears to have often contrived
to be in the gallery of " Patstowe " Church on a Sunday.
It is only a matter of fifty years ago or so that Mrs.
Woollcombe, wife of the then Rector, the Rev. Louis
WooUcombe (who rebuilt the Rectory and restored the
church), first began to play the harmonium. Mr. Trace
seems to have loyally accepted the new order of things,
since for years he continued to train the choir boys, and he
retained his leadership of the choir to the end. He died in
1905 at a good old age, and to the day of his death re-
tained almost unimpaired his powders both of touch and voice.
But the memory of the life-work of a man who was in his
time something of a notabihty will, alas, quickly fade and
be forgotten. Indeed, already scarce anyone remembers even
hearing the old church band ; and we are indebted to Mr.
Edwin Trace, a son of Mr. William, for practically the
whole of the material for this article. Mr. Edwin has now
passed his sixtieth year, though nimble and active as ever,
and he lived in the same house as his father without a
break until the latter's death, and also, as a lad, sang in
the old gallery for a short period before the church band
was cast into the limbo of the past. But quite apart from
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a son's admiration and affection for a very capable father,
there is ample evidence to show that Mr. William Trace
must have been a man of remarkable musical talent, and
that under his lengthy regime the standard of the music pro-
duced Sunday by Sunday in the gallery of the old unrestored
Church of St. Petrock Stow was admirably maintained.
^-1 p-i(r^- W. E. Crosse Crosse.
136, Mercer of Ottery St. Mary. — Lyson's states:
"The barton of Bishop's Court, said to been the seat of
Bishop Grandisson, having been held on lease by the family
of Mercer as early as the reign of Edward III., was pur-
chased by them in fee in the reign of James I., and is now
held in jointure by the widow of Henry Marker, Esq., junior,
whose grandmother was heiress of the Mercers."
Richard Mercer, of Bishop's Court, Ottery St. Mary, married
and had issue a daughter Jone, buried at Ottery St.
Mary, 10 March, 1603. She was the wife of George
Stoford, of Ottery St. Mary ; and a son,
Robert Mercer, will dated iS Jan., 1589-90; proved 20 July,
1590 {Archdy. Exeter). By his wife Mary he had
issue : —
Nycholas Mercer, matriculated at Exeter Coll., Oxford,
3 Dec, 1575, age 17; B.A. 11 Feb., 157I ; M.A.
14 Mch., 157I ; Proctor, 1584; elected Rector, but
resigned his claim i April, 1592; Vicar of Rousdon,
14 Oct., 1581 ; Canon of Exeter, 1583; Vicar of
Bishopsnympton, 1585 ; Rector of Pitt Portion,
Tiverton, 22 Feb., 1590; buried 24 Mar., 1596,
aged 30, M.I. chancel of St. Peter's, Tiverton.
Will, no date, proved {P.R.B. Exeter) 6 April, 1597.
By his wife Joane, who proved his will, he had
issue : — John, Mary, Thomas, and a second son
Nicholas Mercer, who married Margaret Staveley,
mar. lie. 4 Feb., 161 1, by whom he had issue,
bapt. St. Mary Arches, Exeter : —
Mary, 18 Feb., 1618.
Nicholas, 12 Feb., 1620; bur. 10 Mar., 1624.
Dorothy, 18 May, 1623; bur. 9 Nov. 1623.
Miles, 14 Dec, 1624.
Grace, 9 Nov., 1629.
Margaret, bur. 8 Dec, 1653.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 165
Mr. Nicholas Mercer was bur. 11 Aug., 1638;
Mrs. Margaret Mercer, 30 Nov., 1643, both at St.
Mary Arches.
Rychard Mercer, Exeter Coll., Oxford, B.A. 14 July,
1585; M.A. II July, 1588; B.C.L. 24 May, 1595;
Master of the Grammar School, Ottery St. Mary,
1623-1627.
Rawlyn.
Jone.
Katherine.
Prudence. And a son,
Thomas Mercer, matriculated Exeter Coll., Oxford, 11 Oct.,
1583, age 13; B.A. 29 Oct., 1589; M.A. 23 June, 1592.
Buried at Ottery St. Mary, 16 June, 1641 ; {Admon.,
Exeter, 1641). By his wife Joan, buried at Ottery St.
Mary, 4 Dec, 1645, he had issue : —
Anne, bapt. Ottery St. Mary, 21 June, 1601 ; married
there 10 Sep., 1621 ; buried St. Martin's, Exeter,
Dec, 1628. She was the first wife of Samuel
Isaacke, Town Clerk of the city of Exeter ; buried
Ottery St. Mary, 14 Feb., 1681. (See Vol. ix., p. 28).
Robert Mercer, matriculated Exeter Coll., Oxford, 17
Dec, 1619, age 17; died 1623.
Richard Mercer, buried Ottery St. Mary, 4 Dec, 1671.
And a son,
William Mercer, bapt. Ottery St. Mary, 19 May, 1605;
(Admon., Exeter, 1671). By his wife Agnes Lane"*" he
had issue : —
Johan, bapt. Ottery St. Mary, 28 March, 1634.
Elizabeth, bapt. Ottery St. Mary, i Feb., 1635.
Mary, bapt. Ottery St. Mary, i Feb., 1637. She
married, mar. lie, 15 April, 1666, Thomas Trosse,
of Plymtree and of Uppincott, Shobrooke; he was
son of Christopher Trosse of Plymtree and his
wife Susanna, daughter of Thomas Payne, rector.
Bapt. at Plymtree i June, 1634. Will dated 24
May, 1688; proved {Exeter) 27 April, 1693.
* Her sister Margaret m:»iried first, . . . Hunt; second, Nicbolas
Prideaux, first son of Nicholas Piideaiix of Soldon. Her will, •' widow,
being ancient," dated 9 March, 1697-8, Admon. 18 Oct., 1698 ; proved
at Exeter 7 Aug., 1704.
i66 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
Margaret, bapt. Ottery St. Mary, 22 April, 1640; buried
there 28 May, 1648.
Anne, bapt. Ottery St. Mary, 8 June, 1643.
Jael, bapt. Ottery St. Mary, 6 June, 1648.
William Mercer, of East Budleigh, who married and
had a son — William Mercer, of East Budleigh
{Admon., Exeter, 1727). He married Ann Channon,
of East Budleigh, mar. lie. 11 Feb., 1689.
And a son,
John Mercer, bapt. Ottery St. Mary, 14 Feb., 1632 ; will dated
13 Aug., 1694; proved 15 March, 1694 {Archdy. Exeter).
He married, 1657, Sarah, daughter of Robert Huntington,
of Stanton Harcourt, Oxford, by whom he had issue: —
Sarah, born 26, bapt. Ottery St. Mary, 26 March, 1658 ;
buried there 2 March, 1678.
William Mercer, second son.
Margaret, bapt. Ottery St. Mary, 19 Jan., 1670; married,
mar. lie, 29 March, 1689, Joseph Oliver of Exwick,
Esq., son of Benjamin Oliver.
Robert Mercer, born 1674, matriculated at Exeter Coll.,
Oxford, 10 April, 1690; B.A. 1693; M.A. 1696.
His great aunt, Margaret Prideaux, bequeathed to
him " The Advowson of Plymtree." From the list
of Rectors in Exeter Diocesan Gazette, vol. iv., 165, he
does not appear to have presented to the rectory; the
patron in 1680 and 1685 was his uncle, Thomas Trosse.
Elizabeth, bapt. Ottery St. Mary, 24 May, 1677; she
married John Moore, Esq.
Ann, born 4 July, bapt. Ottery St. Mary, 25 July, 1661 ;
mar. lie. 2 July, 1677; died 8 Oct., buried St. Mary
Arches, Exeter, 18 Oct., 1690, aged 30, M.I. She
married, as his first wife, Isaac Gibbs,* of Exeter,
* His second wife was Sarali, daughter of Roger Cheeice, and sister
of Roger and Phineas Cheeke, and widow of James Clutterbrooke.
Mar. Lie, Exeter, 1687, May 21— James Clutterbrooke and Sarah Cheeke,
of the City of Exon, solut.
1698, Nov. 8— Isaac Gibbs, of the City of Exon, and Sarah Clutter-
brooke, of the same, widow.
The following, possibly her daughter :— 1699. March 11 — George
Mitchell, of the City of Exon, and Lovedy Clutterbrooke, of the same, sp.
Her will, dated 30 Sept., 1726, was proved P.C.C, 17 Jan. 174I.
(See Worthfs Devon Wills, p. 153).
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 167
merchant, son of Abraham Gibbs and his wife
Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac Maudit, bapt. St. Mary
Arches, 27 March, 1653 5 Bailiff of the City, 1685,
1694; Sheriff, 1696 ; died 31 March, buried St. Mary
Arches, 4 April, 1726, aged 73, M.I. By him she
had issue a daughter, Ann, who married at St. Mary
Arches, 18 Dec, 1705, John Pine of Dartmouth,
bapt. St. Paul's, Exeter, 23 Nov., 1680, son of
Malachy Pine of Exeter, and his wife Mary,
daughter of John^Goodall of Fowye.
And a son,
John Mercer, born 29 Oct., bapt. Ottery St. Mary, 17 Nov.,
1659; buried there 24 Jan., 1719. He married Mary,
daughter of Richard Conant, Vicar of East Budleigh,
1672-1688, and his second wife Mary Northcott, of
Compton Valance, Dorset. Bapt. at East Budleigh, 5
Sep., 1668; married there 7 July, 1681 ; buried at Ottery
St. Mary, 19 May, 1701. They had issue: —
John Mercer, named in will of brother Malachy, iy\l.
Richard Mercer, named in will of grandfather, John
Mercer, 1694.
Malachy Mercer, of Exeter, Apothecary, bapt. Ottery
St. Mary, 24 Sept., 1684. Will dated 4 Jan., 1711;
proved 9 Apr., 1712 {Archdy. Exeter). He married
at St. Pancras, Exeter, 18 June, 1710, Susanna
Winde.
And a daughter,
Jael Mercer, bapt. at Ottery St. Mary, 21 Oct., 1686;
married at Holy Trinity, Exeter, 5 Nov., 1719; buried
at St. Paul's, Exeter, 3 Aug., 1763. She married, as
his second wife, Henry Gandy,* son of Simon Gandy,
of Exeter, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Abraham
Gibbs, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac Maudit.
He was born 11 April, bapt. 22 Apr., 1679, at All
Hallows, Goldsmith St. ; Town Clerk of the City of
* His first wife was Grace, born 14 Nov., bapt. 23 Nov., 1679, at All
Hallows, Goldsmith St. ; married at St. Martin's, 7 Oct.. 1705 ; buried at St.
Paul's, 9 Oct., 1718 ; daughter of Samuel Sampson, of Exeter, Apothecary,
and his wife Grace, daughter of Philip Hooper. Samuel Sampson bapt.
at Coiyton, 3 Oct., 1648, was son of Nicholas Sampson, of Colyton (1617-
1704).
i68 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
Exeter, 31 July, 1733 ; buried St. John's, 19 March,
1752. They had issue : —
Symon Gandy, who married Sarah Score at Holy Trinity,
Exeter, 14 Jan., 1738, and had issue a son, John Gandy,
of Sidney Sussex Coll., Cambridge; B.A. 1762; M.A.
1768; Vicar of St. Andrew's, Plymouth, 1769; Pre-
bendary of Exeter. Died 15 Aug., 1824, aged 84.
M.I. St. Andrew's.
Jael Gandy, bapt. St, Paul's, Exeter, 22 Feb., 1721.
Henry Gandy, bapt. St. Paul's, 28 May, 1724.
Margaret Gandy, died 6 Oct., 1809, aged 81, " unmarried,"
buried Aylesbeare, M.I.
Mary Gandy, married at Ottery St. Mary 9 March, 1757;
died 13 April, 1812, aged 84; buried at Aylesbeare, M.I.
She married Henry Marker, son of Richard Marker,
Master of Ottery St. Mary Grammar School, and Vicar
of Bradford, Somerset. He was born 11 July, bapt. at
Ottery St. Mary, 9 Aug., 1733 ; matriculated from Exeter
Coll., Oxford, 3 April, 1750; B.A. 1753; Rector of
Ashton and of Aylesbeare; died 2 Nov., 181 1, aged
78; buried Aylesbeare, M.I.
Extracts from Wills. — Jesus. In the name of God.
Amen. I Robt. Mercer being of pfct mynd and good
remembrance to make this my last wyll and testament the
xviii"" of Januarye in the xxxii"' yere of ye raigne of our
Soveraygne Ladye Queue Elizabethe [1589-90] as foUoweth,
Imprimis I gyve to yee poorest inhabitantes of St. Mary
Ottry to be distributed at their bowses on ye day of my
buriall Itm I give to my soone Nicholas Mercer one goblett
of sylver one stone cupp with a rym and handel of sylver
and syx sylver spoones: sonne Rychard Mercer various
articles of sylver (numerated) : daughters Rawlyn, Jone,
Katheryne and Prudence Mercer to each of them ffortie
pounds of lawffull English money to be paide unto them at
the tyme of their marriadges : Thomas Mercer sonne bed-
stead bedding and blankets etc. To sonne Thomas after
the decease of his mother (or when shee shall marry after
my decease) if he live and accomplish the adge of xxii yeres
and doo consent to my will as hereafter sett downe the lease
of my howse and land wherin I nowe dwell with xii ffiirthings
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 169
of land theirunto beelonging w"^ I received of ye right honer-
abble L: ffrancis late Earle of Bedfoord together with all my
rights therein during the yeres and tyme mentioned in ye
said lease but yf he do dye before he accomplysse ye adge
of xxii then my wyll is that Richard my soone after the
decease or marriadge of his mother: Richard Mercer my
flFather deceased: Mary my wife: John Baker: Michaell
Blownt esquyers : Item I gyve unto my soone Richard Mercer
those ii leases of ye grownd of Hawkerlond w'^'' I received
of John Baker and Michaell Blownt esquyers w*** all my
right title and interest therein during ye yeres mentioned in
ye sayd leases : xii fifarthings of land in fFenyton received of
a lease granted by John Vysey late Byssop of Exon unto
my ffather Richard Mercer deceased my wyll is y' Mary my
wyfFe shall have and enjoy the same lease and all my right
therein etc. Wyfife Mare wholle and sole executrix. I doo
appoynt my coossyn John Sherman gent and my brother
Tliomas Drake gent to be my overseers and helpers w"^ the
good advyse of my good master S' Robert Denys Knight.
Witnesses— Alexander Tyrlyng, Giles Carpenter, Hugh
Mercer, John Drake. Proved 20 July 1590 in the Court of
the Archdeacon of Exeter.
Nicholas Mercer, Parson of Pytt in the parish of Tiverton
[no date.] To be buried in Church or Churchyard of
Tiverton : To the poor 40s. Residue of goods cattails bookes
and other my goods one half to my wife Joane Mercer and
the other half to my four children John Nicholas Marye and
Thomas between them, Executors in trust— my worshipful
good friend Mr. John Leache Chaunceler of the Cathedral
Church of Exeter Mr. Edward Ameye and my l^rothers
Mr. Richard Mercer and Mr. Thomas Mercer.
[No signature or seal] (Witnesses) : The forenamed
Edward Anieye John Richards Parson of Tytcombe.
Inventory by Mr. Christopher Cover, Mr. Edward Amye,
Mr. Hughe Broughton, Mr. Lewse Lousmore, 22 March,
1596, for ;^3o8 15s. 6d. Apparell, £^ : Furniture cattle corn
etc. : one goblet of Silver parcell gilt : one stone cup topte
and footed with silver : a doz of silver spoons £^ 134: all
the books £10 : Mr. Rudge oweth him for his marryage
money £b6 13 4: Mr. Rudge oweth him more £:\\ Mr.
Humfrye Southcombe ;^4 : Mr. Charles Bere Esq. [ ]i
170 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
W™- Darche 24/8 : Mr. Rychards 20/- : Mr. Rychards oweth
more for corn 15/- : John Everton 20/- : Henry Westhome
10/- : the harper's wife 5/- : the wid: Willes 12'' : Simon Berye
12'* : R. Berye 10/-: John Poynter la"* : Haywood 3/9:
Thomas Tenante 3/10 : John Webber the younger 23^^ : John
Dynnys 10/-; Roger Daleighe 17/- 6 April, 1597, Admon :
with Will annexed granted to Joane Relict. {P.R.B., Exeter).
John Mercer, of Ottery St. Mary, co. Devon, gent., to
bee buried in the church of Ottery St. Mary. 40s. to poore
of Ottery St. Mary. I give unto John Mercer William
Mercer Robert Mercer Margaret Oliver wife of Joseph Oliver
Esqre and Elizabeth Moore Esq my sons and daughters
unto each of them 20s. : To dearly beloved wife all the rents
and yeerely profitts of all my Lands Tenements and Lease-
hold Estates lying within this county unto her, her assigns,
etc. : house courtlage and garden in the towne of Ottery St.
Mary which I now live in and lately bought of Samuell
Isaacke: Lands at Ipplepen to grandson Richard Mercer his
heirs and assigns after wife's decease : loving wife Mrs. Sarah
Mercer whole and sole executrix. Witnesses — George Ware
Ann Sander, Jos: Bickford : Dated 13 August 1694. Proved
15 March 1694-5. {Court of the Archdeacon of Exeter).
Inventory ;^i73 17s. lod. : Goods at Bishopp Court : signed
by Henry Marker, John Baron.
Seal. Arms — A chevron between three dogs trippant, in chief
three wolves' heads.
Malachy Mercer, of the City of Exeter, Apothecary : To
flfather John Mercer, brother John Mercer and sister Jael
Mercer, rings : whereas I am now entitled unto estates and
interested in one third part (the whole in three parts to bee
divided) of the Inheritance of one messuage and dwelling
house w"' the app' situate and lieing in the parish of Ottery
St. Mary Co. Devon wherein my said ffather John Mercer
now lives I do hereby give devise and bequeath my said
third part of the said messuage or dwelling house unto my
said ffather for the term of 50 years if he should happen to
live so long and after his death to my deare wife Susanna her
heirs and assigns for ever : said wife Susanna the residue and to
be sole ex'""' Dated 4 Jany. 171 1. (W.) Mary Trewman
Will: Barter, John Trewman, Proved 9 April, 1712. {Arch-
deaconry of Exeter).
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 171
Seal. Arms — A chevron between three dogs trippant, in chief
three wolves' heads.
From Worthy's Devonshire Wills, pp. 131-2-3 : — Margaret
Prideaux, of Shobrooke, co. Devon, widow " being ancient":
The advowson of Plymtree and ;^200 to her cousin Robert
Mercer, son of her cousin John Mercer, deceased, of Ottery
St. Mary : ;^ioo to William Mercer, son of her cousin
William Mercer of Budley : ;i^ioo to John Mercer son of her
said cousin John Mercer : To John Mercer grandson of her
said cousin John Mercer all her lands etc., in Ipplepen to
him and his heirs : Also to Malachy Mercer brother to said
John and his heirs the messuage called Ford in the Parish
of Cheriton Fitz Payne : Also to Richard brother of said
John and Malachy and his heirs her house in Ottery, a
house in Shobrooke, ;/f 100 : Also to Jael Mercer their sister
^800 if she be not married before my decease : Her cousins
Isaac Gibbs, of Exeter and Joseph OUiver of Exwick to
be Guardians of the four children last named : To her sister
Agnes Mercer her tenement in Sowton called Walcombes
for life : Margaret, Joseph and John Olliver children of
her said cousin Joseph Olliver all her lands in South
Molton, North Molton, Chittlehampton, Bishops Nympton
and Bow on condition that they pay Benjamin, Mary
and Elizabeth Olliver their brother and sisters £^0
each : To Anne Gibbs daughter of her cousin Isaac Gibbs
her house in Northgate St. Exeter ; To John Moore Esq.
and Elizabeth his wife : To her cousin Isaac Gibbs and
Elizabeth his mother: To William Mercer of Budley and
his wife: To Sarah Mercer of Ottery widow of John Mercer
deceased : To John Mercer of Ottery and his wife : To
John Gibbs son of her cousin Isaac Gibbs of Exeter all her
lands in Shobrooke, Cheriton and Crediton (not before given)
to him and his heirs for ever or in default of said issue to
his sister Anne Gibbs or in default to the right heirs of her
cousin Isaac Gibbs and in default of such heirs to John Mercer
grandson of her cousin John Mercer, deceased and to his
heirs. Will dated 9 March, 1697-8. Admon with Will annexed
to Isaac Gibbs during the mmority of John Gibbs sole exor :
18 October, 1698. Probate to John Gibbs, 7 August, 1704.
P. 50: — 1778, Sept. 20. Admon: of goods of Isaac
Gibbs. Release dated 28 March, 1689. Mentions : Benjamin
172 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
Oliver, Joseph his son, John Mercer, of Ottery St. Mary,
Margaret Mercer, spinster, whom Joseph Oliver meant to
marry, and did so marry, leaving issue Elizabeth, wife of
William Williams, of Exon, M.D. A. T. P. Skinner.
137. The Revd. Thomas Bedford, B.D,, and his
Descendants. — In his day the Revd. Thomas Bedford, B.D.,
was a man of considerable mark. " Lecturer " at St.
Andrew's Church, Plymouth, from 1631 to 1643, he was
called twice to preach at St. Paul's Cross, but when ap-
pointed to the living of St. Andrew on the death of Dr.
Aaron Wilson, the town authorities removed and imprisoned
him. The Parliament also removed him from Plymouth to
London. Later he became Rector of St. Martin Outwich,
and lectured at St. Antholm's.
He had three sons, John, James and William. John
became Rector of St. Gerrans, Cornwall, in 1645, This
Rector of St. Gerrans had five sons, all clergymen bene-
ficed m Devon and Cornwall. The eldest son was Head
Master of Plymouth Grammar School from 1674 to the
time of his death in 1738, at the age of ninety In 1758
the Revd. John Bedford, M.A., became Vicar of Charles,
Plymouth, and remained so till his death in 1784, at seventy-
four years of age.
As an old " Charley boy," I want very much to unravel
the mystery that seems to hang over the connection of
these three Plymouth clergymen. What seems necessary to
trace the relationship is to obtain information first when and
where the sons of the Plymouth lecturer were born and
what became of James and William ? According to the
lecturer's Will, dated 1651, William was not then oi full
age, so that he must have been born very much later than
his elder brother John, who became Rector of St. Gerrans
in 1645. Then it is necessary to follow the issue of the
Rector of Gerrans. His elder son was born in 1648, and
became, as I have said, Head Master of the Grammar
School in Plymouth. John Bedford, M.A., the Vicar of
Charles, born in 1710, was teste C. S. Gilbert, the youngest
son of a Revd. William Bedford, who was Rector of
Tregony from 1694 to 1727. Was this the William, youngest
son of Thos. Bedford, the Rector of St. Martin Outwich,
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 173
or was he of a later generation ? To decide this knotty
question we want information as to the names and dates of
birth of the four younger sons of the Rector of Gerrans.
Perhaps some of your readers may be able to come to
our help and furnish the information desired.
>^< P-Zy/. W.S.B.H.
138. Teigngrace Church and Early Consecrations
(IX., p. 108, par. 93). — In an edition of Gratian's Decrees,
undated, but bearing the imprint of B [erthold] Rembolt,
and therefore published, probably, within a few years' range
of I4a4, is what appears to be the text of the " letter "
cited by the Rev. O. J. Reichel, as from " Gratian III.,
Dist. I., c. 24."
If it be so, the translation offered by Mr. Reichel (as
well as his reference) would seem to stand in need of
correction, and his deductions consequently to invite revision.
The letter or decree is attributed by Gratian not to
" Pope Vigilius " [c. 538 A.D.] but to the Pope whom he
styles both "Julius" and " Julianus " [341 A.D.] ; and so
far from declaring the " three things '' specified by Mr.
Reichel to have been " necessary for consecration," it
appears to me to shew (2) if not also (i) to have been un-
essential at that period. ^^^^
Gratianus (who wrote c. i^«- A.D.^'^) glosses the term
"sanctuaria" as ''^ veliqiua sanctorum, vel altaria'' (relics of
saints, or altars), and according to Ducange it may mean
" holy relics, images or statues " ; but to translate " sancttiaria "
as "shrine" and then to interpret the word "shrine" as
"an adjoining altar-chapel," is to subject it to a strain that
the context does not justify.
The text runs thus : —
Ite Julian' Papa De eode. Casus.
De fabrica vero cuiuslibet eccl'e si diruta fuerit in-
staurada. & si in eo loco cosecratiois solenita' debeat iterari
in quo sanctuaria no fuerit nihil indicam' officere : si p ea
minime iactet' aqua exorcizata quia in consecratioe cuius-
libet eccl'ie in qua spus sacti arra no ponitur celebritate
scimus tatum esse missaru. et ideo si qua sanctoru basilica a
fundamentis fuerat inovata sine altaris motione : sive aliqua
*Succession of Sacred Literature, J. B. B. Clarke, III., 683.
174 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
dubitatione cum in ea fuerit missarum solennitas celebrata
totius consecratio sanctificationis implevit. Si vero sanc-
tuaria q habebat ablata sut : rurs' eoru deposicioe et missar'
solenitate reverentia sanctificationis accipiet.*
Which may be thus translated : —
Case. As to the restoration of the fabric of any church,
if it have been destroyed, and whether in that place in
which there have been no relics the solemnity of consecra-
tion ought to be repeated : —
We adjudicate that there will be nothing amiss, if exor-
cised water be not sprinkled about it at all ; [or — least of
all if exorcised water be sprinkled about it] ; for we know
that the [original] consecration of any church in which
pledges of the Holy Ghost [i.e., relics] are not placed is
effected solely by the celebration of masses. Therefore if a
basilica of the saints be rebuilt from the foundations without
disturbance of the altar, undoubtedly, when the solemnity
of masses shall have been celebrated in it, the consecration
of a complete sanctification will have been fulfilled. If,
indeed, relics that it Jiad have been removed, the putting these
back, and the solemnity of masses will effect the reverence
of sanctification.
The adverb viinime = z.t least, least of all, in no wise,
not at all, etc., permits various constructions of the sentence
in which it occurs. I have preferred that which seems the
most logical, supposing holy water at this date to have
taken the place of the holy oil or chrism that at a later
period was applied to the walls as well as to the altar.
The ceremony of dedication of churches is said to have
been very simple in the beginning. The Gelesian Sacra-
mentary shews it to have consisted, in the seventh century,
of prayers, sprinkling with holy water, and blessings
{Cath. Encycl.) Strabo, describing the " dedication of a
temple" by Columbanus, states that he sprinkled it with
blessed water, that " they went round singing," and
that he "anointed the altar," placed in it relics of St.
* The correct reference in this edition, of which there is a copy in
the Cathedral Library, is Tercia Pars. Distinctio /., fol. ccccxxv., d.
"Cap. 24" does not come in this "Part," nor treat of this subject, and
there is no letter or decree treating of '• Consecration " so similar to
the above as to be confounded with it.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 175
Aurelia, and performed mass. Nothing is said of marking
crosses or using chrism on the walls (see Smith's Diet.
Chr. Antiq., citing Strabo) ; but by the eighth or ninth
century the rite had become as elaborate as it now is. (See
Cath. Encycl. and Encycl. Brit., "Dedication," pp. 918-19).
Solemn consecration could thenceforth only be performed
by a bishop ; the application of hallowed oil or chrism to
the walls was essential, and its effect was perpetual ; whereas
in the less solemn ceremony that sufficed for a private or
public chapel to which no " cure of souls " pertained, the
"hallowing" or "blessing" could be done by any priest,
but not with perpetual effect in law.
Apparently down to the thirteenth century some — even
important — churches contented themselves v/ith the simpler
form, perhaps by reason of the antiquity of their dedica-
tion, or possibly, sometimes, in avoidance of the expense
of an episcopal consecration.
In 1237 Otho, Legate of Pope Gregory IX., "having
" found [in this country] many churches, and some of them
" Cathedrals, which, although they have been built of old
" time yet have not as yet been consecrated with the oil of
" sanctification," and being " desirous to remedy so dangerous
a defect," decreed " that all Cathedral, conventual or paro-
" chial churches which are now built, and the walls thereof
" perfected, be consecrated by the Diocesan Bishops within
" two years," and that the same should be done in all
churches thereafter to be built. (Burn and Philiimore, Eccl.
Law, I., 324; II., 30, d.)
I think that the words " churches which are now built,"
etc., probably refer only to recently finished edifices, and
not to un-consecrated buildings of old standing, but if the
latter were indeed included in the decree, I should imagine
that their r<;-consecration might have given occasion for some
re-naming of churches at this period.
5^ ^'^ly ■ Ethel Lega-Weekes.
139. The Dog Whipper (IX., p. 158, par. 129). — Farmers
and others in past generations were in the habit of bringing
their dogs into church, and in the event of the animals
exhibiting themselves as disturbers of the congregation by
fighting or the like, the Dog Whipper whipped them out
into the street (See Chambers' Book of Days). R. H. C.
176 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
140. The Dog Whipper (IX., p. 158, par. 129). — Such
entries are familiar to all readers of parish accounts. In
Dr. Cox's " Churchwardens' Accounts " will be found plenty
of information and an illustration of a dog whip, as also
of dog-tongs. When farmers, shepherds, etc., took their
dogs to church (as they still do in some places), such an
official must have been invaluable, especially as it was
generally also his duty to keep in order that more troublesome
animal — the boy. Ygrec.
141. The Dog Whipper (IX., p. 158, par. 129). — A
good description of this functionary may be found in the
late Dr. T. N. Brushfield's paper on "The Churchwardens'
Accounts of East Budleigh " {Trans. Devon. Assoc, xxvi., 361).
In some places the dog whipper, noper, or flogger, was a
regular salaried officer, as at Hartland. The earliest entry
here occurs in 1598-9: — " It'm paid to John Frier for
keeping the dogges out of the Churche this yeare ij'"
The next year " whippinge " is used instead of " keeping,''
and at this period the terms " dog keeper " and " dog
whipper " seem to be used indifferently. Frier died in
1603, and was succeeded by Philip Can, who continued in
office at the same salary or wages until his death in 1647.
There was then an interval until the Restoration, when
William Noy was appointed at a salary of 4 s. per annum.
On his death in 1676, Ozias Couch was appointed at 8s., but
he had the additional duty of " sweeping the Church." In
1685 his salary was raised to los., as at Holcomb Rogus, and
this was continued to his successor, Edmond Woodley, in 1696.
The office was continued in Exeter Cathedral until a
quite recent date, for in 1886 the widow of the last holder
was acting as caretaker at the prebendal house in the
cloisters. The dog whipper was a salaried attendant of
the Cathedral, appointed by the Chapter, and " his rod of
office, an ebony rod with a silver mitre at one end and a
broad brass ferule at the other, is still preserved."
The duty was sometimes performed by the sexton or
beadle, who had also to wake the sleepers by tapping them
on the head with his rod. R. Pearse Chope.
[In reply to our enquiry, Mr. W. T. M. Snow, the Clerk
to the Chapter, has courteously informed us that the office
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 177
of Third Verger or " Dog Whipper " in the Cathedral has
not been filled since the death of Mr. Pickard, which
occurred some 30 years ago. The duty of the Dog Whipper
was to walk about the Cathedral and keep the dogs out. He
led the way in all processions. The staff he used to carry
is an ebony rod with silver mitre at the top, which may be
seen on application to the vergers. A neat little anecdote
survives concerning Charles Reynolds, a predecessor of
Pickard. One day a large and aggressive looking dog got
into the Cathedral, apparently unnoticed by Reynolds, who
was reproved by one of the dignitaries for neglect of duty.
" Never mind," was the ready retort of Reynolds, " let the
dog alone ; he's come in to worship God. ' Let all things
that hath breath praise the Lord.' " — Eds.]
142. Exeter Cathedral Library (VIIL, p. 175,
par. 147; p. 208, par. 170; IX., p. 139, par. 114). — Mr.
Craster's list of Exeter MSS. at the Bodleian Library,
printed with comments by Mr. Chanter, opens up a wide
subject. I believe Mr. Craster would be the first to protest
that it is not a complete but a skeleton list, which shows that
the Dean and Chapter's gift is now contained in 86 volumes.
In some instances "etc." covers several widely -different
MSS. now in one volume, in others the title is given of
the first of several MSS. Apparently about the time of the
donation these MSS. were rebound — Mr. Craster thinks for
the Dean and Chapter. A careful study of the proof-sheets
of the New Summary Catalogue of the B. L. leads me to
believe that these 85 volumes contain 128 separate MSS.,
while there are two among the Oriental MSS. not appearing
in this list, so if I am not mistaken we can account for the
130 MSS. mentioned by Mr, Chanter, though Woods, in his
History of Oxford, gives 132 as the total.
Mr. Craster tells me that the list printed by Oliver
(Lives of the Bishops, p. 376) is a copy of the contemporary
record of the donation entered in the manuscript Benefactor's
Register at the Library. It ends with No. 79 of Mr. Craster's
list, and he says that 80-86 have been identified, on internal
evidence, by Bodley's Librarian as probably part of the gift.
In preparing an account of the Exeter MSS. I card-
indexed the two inventories with cross-references, so I can
N
178 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
supply from these a corresponding title to practically every
one on Mr. Craster's list, but this by no means implies an
identification of the volumes. In some instances I have
examined the MSS. and proved their identity, but it would
be a big task to examine each one with sufficient care. In
one case, at least, I can make a correction : the three works
by Prudentius were in one volume in Anglo-Saxon times,
were also so in 1506, and probably in such condition reached
Oxford. There is some ground for thinking that the two
parts of No. 31 were also bound together before 1506. I have
evidence, which I believe to be conclusive, that No. 45,
Egbert's Penitential, was given to the Cathedral by Leofric.
To deal satisfactorily with this subject requires more
space than is at my disposal, but I may add that the vast
amount of material that I have accumulated divides itself
naturally under the following headings: — Leofric's MSS.;
The Inventories of 1327; Stapledon's MSS.; Grandisson's
MSS.; The Inventory of 1506; The Library Building;
Miscellaneous Notes ; The Bodleian-Exeter MSS. ; The
Present Resting-Places of Exeter MSS. ; and List of Donors.
If anyone can furnish me with information that I have
not already obtained it will be gratefully received and
suitably acknowledged when my account of the Exeter
MS. is published. 5^ P . I fT • Frances Rose-Troup.
143. Crest of Strode (IX., p. 128, par. 110). — The
savin is not a yew but a juniper, Jtmipenis sabina, a low
evergreen shrub which grows sparingly in England but very
plentifully in Southern Europe, in rough, rocky places like
our furze or heath. It bears a quantity of blue black berries,
of which some birds are very fond. J.S.A.
144. Crest of Strode (IX., p. 128, par. no). — " G. S."
is wrong in stating that " savins " are yews. The former
is an evergreen tree of the genus Junipeviis. Yew is genus
Taxus. Both are described in Robinson's English Flower
Garden. Both have noxious qualities but different character-
istics, I believe. J. G.
145. Crest of Strode (IX., p. 128, par. no). — After
the identification of the savin tree, the crest of the Strode
family, it may be of interest to describe a leaden medal
struck apparently by Sir William Strode, M.P., in 1660. It
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bears on the obverse a savin tree with the date 1660. On
the reverse the arms of Sir Wm. Strode and his second
wife Blanche, daughter of Wm. Kekewich, of Catchfrench, Co.
Cornwall — Ar. 2 lyons in bend passant sable cotised or. The lady
was baptized 27th July, 1627; married 13th October, 1647, at
St. Germans ; buried gth October, 1665, at Plympton St. Mary.
For what purpose the medal was struck is not apparent.
It may have commemorated the knighthood of Strode or his
return to Parliament, both of which events occurred in 1660;
or it may have been a servant's badge, though no trace of
any loop or other means of fastening remains. It is pro-
bably of native metal, Sir William having discovered mines
of lead, tin and loadstone in the neighbourhood, specimens
of which he brought to show the Grand Duke of Tuscany
when His Highness Cosmo III. visited Plymouth in 1669.
E. L. Radford.
146. Crest of Strode (IX., p. 128, par. no). — Far
from being a rarity the savin tree (Juniperus sabina) is widely
distributed and well-known in this country, and many of its
species would undoubtedly find a place in any average
collection of ornamental shrubs. Probably the best known
species of Sabma are procumbens, prostrata, variegata, and
tamariscifolia, and they would be best described as low-
growing evergreen coniferous shrubs suitable for rock
gardens. In habit and foliage the Juniper family are rather
dissimilar, and one can readily understand those species
bearing awl or needle-like foliage being erroneously classed
with the yew, a characteristic most marked in Juniperus
Sanderi, one of the gems of the Juniper family. Their
compact growth, dark-coloured foliage, and small berries
with a glaucous bloom, would alone ensure their perpetuation
as plants of decorative worth, but if we add to this the value
of their bitter acrid tops in the preparation of medicines for
many and varied ailments, their yielding an oil resembling
turpentine, and also their clandestine use in cases of abortion,
we think we have shown that the savin tree as known by
that name is scarcely so obscure^ imagined. J. W. T.
147. Sir Nathaniel Herne (IX., p. 159, par. 132). —
In reply to the questions about Sir Nathaniel Herne I beg
to say : — Sir Nathaniel Herne was the son of Nicholas and
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grandson of Richard Heme (Alderman and Sheriff of the
City of London in 1618). He was born in 1629, and in
1646 apprenticed at Barber-Surgeons' Hall to Sir John
Frederick, one of the merchant-princes of London at that
time. Heme was admitted to the freedom on 7th May,
1655, and, like the typical industrious apprentice, he married
his master's daughter, Judith Frederick, by whom he had
(among others) a daughter Judith, who married William,
second Earl of Jersey, and thereby was one of the ancestors
of the present Earl. Sir Nathaniel Heme was a most
successful merchant and amassed a great fortune. In 1674
he was Sheriff of London (being knighted at Windsor on
the gth August) and Master of the Barber-Surgeons' Com-
pany. On the nth April, 1676, he was elected Alderman
of the Ward of Billingsgate. He was sometime M.P. for
Dartmouth, and a Governor of the East India Company.
He died i6th August, 1679, being then 50 years of age,
and was buried at St. Olave Jewry, where there is a monu-
ment to his memory, with his arms impaling Frederick, and
this inscription : — ^^^
Here Iveth in hopes of a Glorious Resurrection the body of Sir
Nathaniel Heme Knight late Sherife And at his death Alderman of this
P'amous Citty and Governour of the Honourable East India Company,
Son to Nicholas and Grandson to Richard Heme sometimes Alderman
allso of this Citty A person of great Prudence and Indefatigable
Industry in the Management of all Publick Affairs, of Exemplary
Piety, Spotless Integrity and Diffusive Charity having with his owne
hand dispensed very considerable summes to many Charitable uses
Particularly to the reliefe of poore Seamen and educating of their
children. He tooke to wife Judith Eldest Daughter of Sir John
Frederick Knight Alderman and sometimes Lord Mayor of London,
his now sorrowful Widdow by whome he had divers Children and
left three hopeful Sons surviving viz*- Frederick, Nathaniel, and Thomas,
to whose and to this Cittyes and Nations great loss as allso to
ye griefe of all them that knew him. He departed this life y^ 16th
August 1679 ^tat 50. ^^^^ ^A~< f-n) Oscar Berry.
148. Derivation of the name Heavitree (IX., p. 127,
par. 108, p. 153, par. 125). — Miss Clarke has opened up a
fascinating subject — the derivation of place-names — one which
I have studied until I have reached the stage where I
know that I don't know. However, I would like to call
her attention to the fact that not very far from Heavitree
was Heved Wille or Head Well, the latter being a literal
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translation, otherwise St. Sativola's Well or Sidwell. I
leave it to the erudite to decide whether St. Sativola's head
gave name to the well, or whether the legend of her
decapitation was invented to account for the well's name.
Personally I imagine that Head is here used in the sense
of chief as there were several wells in the district, among
them Hened Wille or Honewell, nearer to the Magdalen
Almshouses. Hened may easily be misread Heved when
the u is substituted for v resembling n in ancient script. I
might go so far as to suggest that Heved-tree — the d would
naturally be elided before t — more easily becomes Hevitree
than Avon-tree, and besides, I am curious to know where
her Avon flows.
She may be quite right in identifying the terminal tree
with the Cornish affix tre — that is beyond me — but I do
protest against the inclusion of my beloved Ottery with the
common or garden trees. Otri is the earliest form I know.
In Domesday Book the places along the river appear as
Oteri, Otrei, Otria, Otri, Otrie and Otrit with Otritona. It
is quite possible, though it would surprise me, to find Awtree
in official documents of an earlier date than 1500. Otery,
or its contraction, appears in the Manor Court Rolls from
the time of Richard II., through Elizabeth's reign — later
it occurs as Otterrie there.
In Domesday Book I find the following names, beside
Heavitree, of places now ending in trte'^-. — Haletrou, Lange-
truua, Odetreu, Wilastreu (with Ratreu, now Rattery) in
the Exeter copy, and all these end in trew in the Exchequer
copy, while Plumtrei has the same ending in both. The
endings of Heavitree are truua (with a little superior o) and
trove. None of these have any resemblance to Oteri. I
should very much Hke to know whether any place-name
ending in tree takes a Latin form similar to Ottregia.
Frances Rose-Troup.
*The other trees in Devon that I have noticed are Kiletrue— Kiiiatree
in Pyworthy, Cocktree in South Tawton and Crablree in Egg Biickland-
La Heaved is mentioned between Winkley and Southcote in an Inq. f>.vi,
on Gilbert de Clare, 8 Ed. II. and La Hevede wi h holrygge in one on
Henry de Campo Arnulfi. Holangcnmbe heued occurs in an A.-S.
boundary of one of the Otri?, Perhaps Trow Hill in the Sid VaJley has
a distant connection with the Domesday trove.
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149. Heavitree (IX., p. 153., par. 125). — I have read
Mr. Llewellin's derivation of the name Heavitree with great
interest and profit, and should be very glad indeed if he
would give the etymology of the name Ottery. K. M. C.
150. Heavitree (IX., p. 153, par. 125). — The Rev.
G. T. Llewellin has supplied a very scholarly paper on the
derivation of this name, and I have no doubt that he is right.
Heavitree is the High Tree, or rather, the Top Tree.
It is, perhaps, as well to remember that Pomeray's Heavi-
tree was a very small estate, standing as an oasis on the hill
head in the great crown manor Wonford. Like Christow,
Churchstow, St. Pancrasweek, and other places, the manor
where the church stood gave its name to the whole parish.
A somewhat similar instance of the same name may be
found in the up country Harptree. In the Black Book of
1 166, p. 84, this place appears as Epetreu or Hepetreu,
where the harder sound of p has taken the place of the
softer / in Hefodtreu. I suggest that the same derivation
will explain also Heatree in Manaton. Only in this case the
P, /, or V, has been given up altogether in face of the fierce
blasts blowing from Dartmoor. Oswald J. Reichel.
151. The Chapel at Tor Royal. — The so called Chapel
at Tor Royal is the present church at Princetown, built
betv/een 1805 and 1814, as in a paragraph in the Bristol
Mirror of the 13th July, 1805, it states that "The Prince
of Wales is about to erect, at his own expense, a Chapel
at Prince Town in the Forest of Dartmoor, under the
direction of Thomas Tyrwhitt, Esq., Lord Warden of the
Stannaries." This Chapel was built not far from the lodges
of Tor Royal and was a chapel of ease to Lidford Church.
According to the Registers Divine Service was performed
for the first time in Dartmoor Church on 2nd Jan., 1814,
by the Rev. J. H. Mason, the Chaplain, who was the
Vicar of Widecombe, and who lived and died in the Vicarage
there. This shows that it was known as Dartmoor and
not Princetown Church and gives the date of the opening
of the building, but when was it consecrated ? Mr. Mason
got the bridge at Believer built to enable him to get from
Widecombe to Princetown without going round by
Postbridge. J. S. A.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 183
152. The Chapel at Tor Royal. — Looking over
Wallis's Cornwall Register I happened to light upon the
following references to this Chapel, of which I had previously
never seen or heard mention. The date of this publication
is 1847, and in a "list of the Clergy, resident, beneficed or
officiating within the 209 parishes" (of Cornwall) appears,
page 43, the name of *' James Holman Mason " as " Vicar
of Treneglos and Warbstow," to which a note is attached,
" V{icar) and resides at Widecombe in the Moor, Ashburton.
Ch. Tor Royal, Dartmoor." Under the heading of Treneglos,
page 277, at the end of a list of Vicars instituted, Mr. Mason's
name again appears followed by the words " Mr. Mason
resides in his Vicarage of Widecombe in the Moor, near
Ashburton, and is also Curate of Tor Royal Chapel, on
Dartmoor." Mr. Wallis as " Official of the Archdeacon of
Cornwall " had access to authoritative sources of information
so it is not likely that there is any mistake about the
facts. I should like to ask for some further explanation,
and especially as to when the Curacy (or Chaplaincy),
presuming that in the lifetime of Sir John Tyrwhitt there
was a Chapel in the house at Tor Royal, ceased to be
filled up. W.S.B.H.
153. Holcombe Burnell Church. — This church de-
scribed by Dr. Oliver, and more recently by Miss Cresswell
in her interesting notes on the Churches of the Deanery of
Kenn, is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. It is evident,
however, from Charters in the Liber Albus, preserved in
the Chapter Library of Wells, that the original Church at
Holcombe was dedicated to St. Nicholas.
These Charters were published in 1907 in The Calendar
of the MSS. of the Dean and Chapter of Wells, Hist. MSS.
Commission, pages 19 and 20. As the information contained
In them appears to have escaped the notice of our local
historians, the following extracts from the Calendar may
result in further light being thrown on the history of this
Church and other matters of interest in the locality.
" Gift by Ralph son of Bernard to Simon ' my clerk ' in
almoin of the church of Holecumba. Witnesses Henry de
Sicca Villa, Herbert the chaplain, Adam de Risford, Richard
Rufifus, William the Marshall, Croc, John CoUe."
184 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
" Charter of Leticia de Say, reciting that Ralph son of
Bernard her lord in his last will, in the presence of Stephen
chaplain of Dinid his confessor, of the said Leticia, Jordan
de Wethemed, William de Rifford and others, restored to
St Nicholas and the Church of Holecumbe the land and
wood, with a villein named Semar tenant thereof and all
that goes with him, whereof he had wrongfully deprived the
said church ; and whereas he had given the said manor to
the said Leticia in dower, requested her to ratify the
restitution thereof; and granting the same to the said church
and the parsons thereof in accordance with the charter they
have of Robert de Renni. Witnesses Osbert dean of
Dunesford, Jordan de Westmed (sic), Robert de Cortelega,
William de Rifford, Ralph de Eueroriz, Richard Ruffus,
Richard Bucell', Gervase Capun, Robert Russell."
" Charter of Robert de Renni (in the rubric Robert Fitz
Payn), confirming a gift made by William de Renni his
father to Robert his chaplain as well in the church of
St Nicholas Holecumbe as in lands pertaining thereto; and
giving further lands extending from the cross of Edric
Borda (Gorda) to the water leat on the south side, and
from the leat all the lands and thickets between the Birigg'
road and between the water of Cotteleg' as far as the paved
road (strata ferrata) Dated 1150. Robert being Bishop of
Exeter, Walter, Hugh de Auco, Ralph son of Gocelin being
Archdeacons, and Alvred archdeacon of Cornwall. Sup-
plementary gift to the chaplains of the said church of
common of pasture in all the grantors land in Holecumba.
Witnesses of all these gifts : Cradoc de Sancta Julitta, Simon
de Bonavilla, William de Mirl', Nicholas de Holecumba,
William son of Hugh, Richard Penna. Dated at the Castle
of St. Julitta."
In a further Charter of Robert de Renni, dated 1156,
confirming a gift by his father to Robert his chaplain, in
almoin in the church of St. Nicholas, Holecumb, the
description of the lands gifted is practically the same as in
the Charter above, saving that " Herbethleg' road " is
substituted for " Birigg road."
It would seem from these Charters that here we have
either a case of re-dedication similar to that referred to by Mr.
Windeatt in his article on Teigngrace, D. &> C. N. &• Q.,
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 185
Vol. ix., page 73, or that St. Nicholas was the patronal
saint, vide Mr. Reichel's article, Vol. ix., p. 109.
From the description of the building in Miss Cresswell's
notes it appears probable that portions of the original church
remain embodied in the existing building, and, therefore, no
re-consecration was necessary.
Is it possible that the shaft of the cross, mentioned by
Miss Cresswell, on the south side of the churchyard is that
of Edric Borda ?
Was the "strata ferrata " part of the Ichneild w^ay or
Fosse way which passed through Kennford, Sandygate to
Totnes, described by Mr. Cotton, Trans. Devon. Asso., xvi.,
or is it possible that this is evidence of a Roman Road which,
I think, some writers believe ran from Exeter across
Dartmoor.
The tragic story of the martyrdom of the child saint
St. Cyriacus or Cyres and his mother Julitta, in 303 a.d.,
is told by Mr. Oldham in his paper on church dedications
in Devon, Trans. Devon. Asso., xxxv. Can anyone say
where the Castle of St. Julitta was ? There was a castle
for the Canons of St. Mary in Exeter, recorded in Domesday
Survey, but according to Victoria History of Devon, page 398,
vol. I., there were only one or two others in the county.
Cotteleg is Cotley, in the parish of Dunsford, but I cannot
identify Herbethleg or Birigg with any existing names in
the locality, unless possibly Birigg was the ancient spelling
of Perridge. Q^^\ pz/?. F- Fulford.
154. West Country Clock and Watch Makers (IX.,
p. 30, pars 25-28 ; p. 64, par. 64, et ante. — To the names already
given may be added the following : — Beare, Jno., Pilton,
1780; Bennett, , Plymouth; Bennett, , Totnes;
Evens, , Totnes ; Heard, WiUiam, Hartland ; Oatway,
John, Torrington ; Shimbles, , Totnes ; Uglow, Geo.,
Stratton ; Whitby, Willm,, Cullompton.
I have come across the following in the official list of
patentees prior to 1852 : —
Eva, Richard, of Falmouth, who patented with another
on 9 Feb., 1796 (No. 2087) "apparatus for taking obser-
vations and altitudes, both by sea and land, without any
dependence on the visible or sensible horizon."
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Sanderson, George, watchmaker, of Exeter, who patented
on 25 June, 1761, various tools and engines for watch-
making (No. 763), and on 25 June, 1762, "a lunar and
calendar watch-key " (No. 777).
Haywood, John, watch maker, of Crediton, who patented
on 7 Jan., 1766, "a lunar or callendar ring" (No. 836).
Pearse, John, ironmonger and clock and watchmaker, of
Tavistock, who patented on 27 July, 1822, improvements in
spring jacks and their connection with roasting apparatus
(No. 4693). In two subsequent patents for wheeled car-
riages he is described as ironmonger only.
Waycott, Peter, clock and watch maker, of Plymouth,
who patented, in conjunction v/ith another, on 22 June,
1831, improvements in mangles (No. 6126).
Among the persons employed in repairing the Hartland
town clock may be mentioned David Frye, Silvester Saint,
John Morcombe(who supplied a new clock in 1622-3 for 33s.,
and "new made" the clock in 1657-8 for 20s.), Henry
Clyverdon, Hugh Holloford, Richard Sleeper, and John Oat-
way. I know nothing of these, except Morcombe and Oatway,
and I doubt whether all of them were really clockmakers,
for Hugh Holloford, at any rate, seems to have been the
village smith, though, in 1645-6, he was paid 6s. " for
amending the clocke and for corde for the peazes " (weights).
Morcombe was a Barnstaple clockmaker, and, as the pre-
sent clock is of extremely rude and ancient construction, it
is suggested that the main portion is really part of the
one supplied by Morcombe in 1622-3, ^.nd that the original
crown-wheel escapement was converted into a " sliding
escapement " controlled by a pendulum when the clock was
"new made " in 1657-8. The hands are still driven positively
(i.e. without any possible slipping movement), the pen-
dulum is suspended by a piece of whalebone, and the
weight is a huge stone. If my suggestion is correct, the
clock is of great antiquarian value, and is possibly the oldest
pendulum clock in the county. The following entries from
the town accounts of 1657-8 will be found of interest : —
Paid Mr. Morcombe when he came about to see the
Towne clocke and for his diet and horsmeate - 10^
Paid George Lendon to show him the way to Docton
and Nottacott . . . . . ^^
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Paid John Render for cariage of the clocke to
Barnestaple - - - - - 2^ 6**
Paid Mr. Morcombe for new makeing the clocke - £1
Paid Richard Pearce man for fetching home the
clocke from Barnestaple - - - 3^ 6"*
Spent on him in beere when he brought him home - 1^
Spent in beere at the setting uppe of the clocke - ^^
On April 21, 1797, John Oatway, of Torrington, whose
name appears on several local clocks, signed a curious
agreement as follows : —
" It is this day agreed by Mr. Oatway of Torrington
to provide a good and approved eight-day Clock for the
Town of Hartland together with a Bell of 100 [query, 100 lbs.
or I cwt.] , he to have the old Bell and Clock, and in case
Mr. Carter [probably portreeve at the time] and Mr. Chanter
[the minister] think he merits ten shillings more at the end of
the year to be paid it him."
However, this agreement fell through, for the old one-
day clock still remains, and the present bell, which belongs
to the chapel of ease, was not erected until much later,
as is proved by the inscription upon it: " G. S. 1837.
Deo et EccLESiiE." R. Pearse Chope.
155. Will of Captain John Bonython, of Pendennis
Castle, Cornwall. — The testator is Captain John Bonython,
who was lieutenant-governor of Pendennis Castle at Fal-
mouth. Captain Bonython was a son of John Bonython, of
Carclew, an estate in Mylor, and his mother was a daughter
of John Vyvyan, of Trelowarren, which estate adjoins
Bonython in the Lizard district. His brother. Major
Hannibal Bonython, was governor of St. Mawes Castle,
near Falmouth. The following details are gathered from
the will : —
In the name of God Amen, and in the fouretenth daie of Januarie
in the yeare of o' Lord God one thousand sixe hundred tweniie and
sixe. I John Bonython of Pendennis Castle in the countie of Cornwale
Esquier &c. do make this my last will and Testament. To the poore
people of Butheack Penryn and Mylor three parishes near Pendennis
sixe poundes that is fourtie shillinges to each of them. To Edmond
Stephen my servant now with me twentie poundes, and my black nagg
commonly called ffarmer, and a new suite which is latelie sent to me
hom London. To Henry Stephen his brother who is also one of my
servants tenn poundes. To John Hewish another of my servants fiive
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poundes. To Gilbert my servant my heare coloured clothsute and a
white satten doublett and a black branched satten hoase. To Mr. John
Treasure who liveth at Pendennis Castle my sword and belt I last rod
withall and my gray nagg now used. To Mrs. Treasawer his wife one
barren of sugar bound with iron. To the soldiers of the ffort at
Pendennis ffive poundes to be equallie devided amongst Ihem. A
mare which is now in my cosen Kashleigh's keeping to Sir Robert
Kiliiterew. To my cosen Jonatlian Rashlei^h a spannishe rapier and
dagger with a belt belonginge unto it, my Barbarow ffaulcon my little
gray horse. To my cosen his wife my silver chafin dish two basens
and ewers of china and eighteen of the best and biggest of my chma
dishes. All the rest of my goodes and chattells whatsoever I give to
my brother Hanniball Bonython and I doe ordaine and appoint him
to be my full and sole executor and I desiie my cosen Jonathan
Ra^hleigh and Mr. Edmond Penrose to be ye overseers of this my last
will and testament. In witness hereof I have hereunto sett my name
and scale and have desired those whose names are subscribed to be
witnessts hereunto. To my cosen Anne Rashleigh my West India
carpett or coverlttt the best I have. To Mr. Treswer's sonne my
godsonne ffower poundes. To my servant Gilbert sixe poundes.
John Bonython.
Jonathan Rashleigh, William Bassett, Edward Penrose.
Proved in London 21 May 1628 by Hanniball Bonython, the brother
and executor named in the will.
As to the people mentioned in the will, " my cosen "
Jonathan Rashleigh was of Menabilly, close to Fowey. He
was a son of Alice, daughter of Richard Bon\thon, of
Carclew, whilst his wife, Anne, was the daughter of Sir
Robert Bassett, of Tehidy, Illogan. Sir Robert Killigrew,
who was governor of Pendennis Castle, was of Arwenack,
Falmouth; Edward Penrose was of Penrose, near Helston ;
and Edward Bassett, of Tehidy. West Country.
156. "Some Studies in the Topography of the
Cathedral Close." — In her Topography of the Close, p. 186,
Miss Lega-Weekes has a footnote : — " I venture to interpret
the 'egge' or ' eygge, bytwene the cimitery and the cyte,'
to which an incendiary came through ' Litell Style,' as the
edge or borderland." A study of the context makes this
appear a rather rash venture. The first quotation is from
p. loi of Shillingford's Letters, in connection with a dispute
over the setting fire to a " grete drie fryth almost evyn
junant to the bak side of the costleve billyng and yn the
cheiflf place of the citie of Excetre therto enclose and enclosed
a gret parcell of tyinber, the which fright [vrith in the other
Roll] . . . was sette afire." The Bishop in his answer to
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 189
this article says that one of the " Comminalte " came in
"atte the litell stile . . . and brought fire in a sho and sette
the saide egge a fire." The " saide egge " must be identical
with the " grete drie fryth," for within it was the " xx" worth
tymber " and not only was the tymber likely to have been
burnt but " the tenements of the saide Church as [the] biling
of the saide Citee." Halliwell gives "vreath = a low hedge.
Devon." So we must read this as a hedge enclosing timber,
perhaps piled in the Close for use in building the Cathedral.
But exactly where it stood is not clear. " The most costlew
and stately billyng of the Citee," as it is styled in the other
Roll, one would expect to be the Guildhall, but this could
not have been "almost evyn janant" on its back-side to
the Close. Could it have been St. Petrock's Church or
" Bokerel " ? The other reference is to be found on p. 94,
and refers to a "fray" which took place "with ynne the
cloos yeate yn the eygge by tvveene the cimitery and the
cyte." Possibly this was the Margeria, but there may have
been a hedge within the Close. The question of the Margeria
is of great interest ; one wishes Miss Lega-Weekes had
given details as to who held the tenements there and whether
they were held of the City or of whom the Dean and
Chapter bought them.
On the same page, 186, Miss Lega-Weekes refers to
" Bokerel " and other houses bounded on the sotith by the
churchyard of St. Peter. It is difficult to understand how
the churchyard could lie to the south of that building. I
would like to call her attention to three references in
Shillingford's Letters that indicate that the boundaries of
the Close and of the Cemetery were not identical : " With
ynne that they calle the prosyncte of the cloos of Seynt
Peter of Exceter and with oute the seide cimitery " (p. 84),
"with ynne the seide Close and cimitere" (p. 121), "yn
dyvers places of the close and amydde the cimitere" (p. 122).
S-*^ '(^■^'^' Frances Rose-Troup.
157. Vivians of Truro (VIII., p. 99, par. 88). — Thomas
Vivian, of Comprigney in Kenwyn, was the fifth son of
Richard Vivian, of Tavistock, who married at Whitchurch
22nd July, 1647, Frances, d. of William Poynter, of Mawgan
in Pider. This Richard was the fourth son of John Vivian,
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of St. Columb, who married at St. Kew i8th April, 1615,
Mary, daughter and co-heiress of William Cavill. My
information is from a corrected copy of the Vivian pedigree,
published by Lt.-Col. J. L. Vivian, 1893.
Mabel Colborne.
158. Stoke Gabriel Sextons. — Several correspondents
have called our attention to the following extract from the
Exeter Express and Echo of February 8th : —
'• By the appointment of a son of the late sexton at Stoke Gabriel.,
near Totnes, the ofifice is continued in the Narracott family, in which
it has been since 1440."
A similar statement appeared a few years ago in the
London and local papers, and apparently escaped un-
challenged. We are unable to answer our correspondents'
questions as to what authority there is for the statement,
but have every reason for doubting its accuracy. Parish
Registers, which might be expected to yield such informa-
tion, do not go back further than 1538, and Churchwardens'
Accounts, another possible source, generally commence much
later. We have communicated with the Rev. H. L. Pigot,
who recently vacated the living of Stoke Gabriel, and he
says he certainly has his doubts about the statement, but
as far as he knows there is no means of proving or con-
tradicting the claim. Can any reader supply evidence for
or against ? ^^ p. 1 \J^ Eds.
159. Drake's Epitaph. — Perhaps no verse is more
generally associated with Drake than the so-called epitaph
given in Prince's Worthies of Devon : —
The waves became his winding-sheet ; tlie waters were his tomb ;
But, for his fame, the ocean sea was not sufficient room.
Prince himself avowedly quotes from Risdon, but neither
gives the name of the author, and, unfortunately, both were
mistaken in applying the lines to Drake. They were really
written by an Elizabethan poet, Richard Barnfield, and were
by him applied to Hawkins. They occur in the Preface of
The Encomion of Lady Pecunia : or The Praise of Money, 1598.
I quote from Arber's edition (1882), p. 83: — "I have given
Pecunia the title of a Woman, Both for the termination of
the Word, and because (as Women are) shee is lov'd of
men. The brauest Voyages in the World, haue been made
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for Gold : for it, men have venterd (by Sea) to the furthest
parts of the Earth : In the Pursute whereof, England's Nestor
and Neptune (Haukins and Drake) lost their Hues. Vpon the
Deathes of the which two, of the first I writ thus :
The Waters were his Winding sheete, the Sea was made his Toome ;
Yet for his fame the Ocean Sea, was not sufficient roome.
Of the latter this :—
England his hart; his Corps the Waters hatie ;
And that which raysed his fame, became his grave."
R. Pearse Chope.
160. The Devonian Year Book for 1917. — We have
received an advance copy of this work, which, as usual, is
full of interesting matter. Want of space prevents our
reviewing the contents of the volume, but we have much
pleasure in drawing the attention of our readers to it, and
heartily congratulate Mr. R. Pearse Chope, the Editor, on
its production. Eds.
161. " Crowned." Curious Entry from Kingsbridge
Parish Register (IX., p. 159, par. 130). — Had " Extractus"
been a native of Somerset, he would have heard the word in
continual use. An inquest is never held in rural Somerset —
the body is always "crowned," i.e., the Coroner holds his
court of inquiry into the cause of death. Does " Extractus "
not recollect the repeated use of the word by Shakespeare ?
"The crowner hath set on her, and finds it Christian burial."
Hamlet, v., i.
" But is this law ?
Ay, marry, is't : crowner's quest law." Ibid.
" Go thou and seek the crowner, and let him sit o' my coz : for
he's in the third degree of drink, he's drowned." Twelfth Night, i, v.
From the earliest time the chief function of a coroner
was to hold an inquest in view of the body in case of death
from violence or accident, or those who died in prison.
Coroners are first clearly named in the Articles of the Eyre
of 1 194. The derivation of the name that designates the
office of Coroner is that of " Custos placitorum coronas "
— (Guardian of the pleas of the Crown) — a fact that is still
preserved in the popular term of " Crowner," which is used
in Somerset to this day. In Smith's Commonwealth, b. ii., c. 24,
will be found the following : — " Coroner is one chosen by the
prince of the meaner sort of gentlemen, and for the most
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part a man seene in the lawes of the realme. I take it that
this name commeth because that the death of euery subject by
violence is accounted to touch the Crowne of the prince, and to
be a detriment unto it." The Coroner in Saxon times collected
the Crown revenues, then took charge of the Crown pleas,
and it is easy to understand his being designated the
" Crowner," who later attended to " crown " bodies of
persons which had met violent or suspicious deaths. Then
there is of course the Latin word "corona," the crown, to
support this. The historical origin of Coroners is one of
greatest interest. I ventured to deal with it as fully as
possible in my History of the Martin Family (pp. 36-38).
^ip.i^^ W. G. Willis Watson.
[We also have to thank T. N. Briggs, K. M. C, W.
Charnell, R. Pearse Chope, " Curioso II," " Devon,"
" Exeter," F. E. R. S., R. G. D., R. H. C, Oswald J. Reichel,
"Tartar," H. A. Colthurst Tomkins, E. Lega-Weekes,
W. S. B. H., and " Ygrec," for replies to this query, which
has created much interest. The term appears to be fairly
well-known and is still in daily use in some districts, but
can hardly be said to be common. Mr. Charnell, writing
from Blackawton, which is only about nine miles from
Kingsbridge, says : " I do not remember having met [in his
district] with this use of the word." Miss Lega-Weekes
draws our attention to Risdon, who in his Survey says : " If
any man die ... in the Forest, the coroner of Lidford
shall croivn him." Mr. H. A. Colthurst Tomkins says : " The
official is still called ' the Crowner ' in some parts." Mr.
Pearse Chope quotes Mrs. Hewett's Peasant Speech of
Devon : " They've a'crowned Joey Tapp, who hanged 'isszell
yisterday." Mr. Chope expresses regret that the word is
not in general use, for, as he says, there is no other English
word which expresses " hold a Coroner's inquest on," and
it seems much to be preferred to " sit on " or " sit upon."
We regret that want of space prevents the publication
of these replies in full ; also that we are again compelled,
for the same reason, to hold over other contributions. We
trust that at no distant date an influx of subscribers will
permit the issue of additional pages, which could be easily
filled with interesting communications. — Eds.]
C. L. Hart- Smith,
1859-1917.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 193
162. Mr. C. L. Hart-Smith, who died at Launceston
on April 17th, was the second son of the late Rev. W.
Hart-Smith, formerly Vicar of St. Minver and Bedford. He
was born at St. Minver in 1859, and received his education
at the Bedford Grammar School. Adopting the legal pro-
fession, he was admitted a solicitor in 1884, and practised
for some years at Stratton. While at Stratton he found
time to indulge in his hobby of historical research and
gathered much knowledge pertaining to the Blanchminster
Charities. Subsequently, residing at Launceston, he was
appointed Borough Librarian in 1901, and became a Fellow
of the Library Association. At Launceston he acquired
considerable and deserved repute as a local historian, and
was a prolific contributor to the Press on the history of the
borough. In 1914 he published an interesting volume entitled
The Borough of Dunhevet, Cornwall: Its Campanile or Bell Tower. 5<J< ^«<(//. P. f/- 'H.
It was always his contention that the tower of St. Mary
Magdalene Church was not erected as such, and for ages
was not treated as such, but was built and kept for civil
purposes, and as the result of diligent research he collated
a mass of facts in support of his arguments. He was, in
fact, never happier than when poring through local records,
and he rendered useful public service by indexing the Cor-
poration's ancient documents. Mr. Hart-Smith was also an
assiduous collector of old deeds, and at one time had in his
possession many of great interest, some of which belonged
to his grandfather, but realizing that the most fitting
repository for such documents is a public institution where
they would be permanently preserved and be available for
the use of students, he distributed them among various
towns, viz., Exeter, Bodmin, Redruth, Lostwithiel, and
Launceston. Those presented to Exeter are, with one
exception, which is in the Guildhall, in the City Library.
They date from 1263, ^^^ refer to several parts of Devon.
Many of them have interesting seals attached, and several
of them bear notes in the handwriting of that well-known
antiquary Dr. George Oliver. Pride in the traditions of his
county, his family and his town were Mr. Hart-Smith's
chief traits, and regret is generally felt at the passing away
of one whose zeal for the causes he took up was never found
wanting. We are indebted to the Editor of the Lamiceston
o
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Weekly News for many of the details of the life of Mr. Hart-
Smith, and for the loan of the block which accompanies
this note. This was made from an early portrait of Mr.
Hart-Smith, the only one extant.
Mr. Hart-Smith's family really belonged to Exeter where
it played a prominent part in municipal life.
In 1910 the late Mr. W. Hart-Smith, the father of the sub-
ject of the above memoir, presented to the Exeter City Library
what appears to be an unique lithograph of a Mr. Rippon as
herald proclaiming the accession of William IV. at Exeter.
It is dated June 30th, 1830. The letter which accompanied
this gift, addressed to the late Alderman James Commin,
contains much interesting information, and we think some
extracts from it will interest our readers. Mr. Hart-Smith
says : " Rippon was considered, I believe, one of the finest
men in Devon. He was a tailor in St. Catherine Street, and
was the parish clerk at St. Martin's. He led the congrega-
tion singing with a pitch-pipe — there was no organ in those
days. Mr. Cosserat was Rector, and afterwards Mr. Mar-
wood Tucker. Mrs. Steer then kept the Clarence Hotel, and
Mr. Gendall's shop was next the church. Rippon was
mounted on one of the great horses of Salter and Owen's
City Brewery, down by Exe Bridge. The lithograph is a
good likeness of the man, who was handsome. He was
succeeded by a man called Woolland, of St. Sidwell's, whose
voice was so poor that it led to our having a small organ
in the gallery, played by Miss Sparkes, whose father was
one of the Vicars Choral at the Cathedral, and sister of the
afterwards well-known Dr. Sparkes of Leeds. She married
a Curzon. My mother was a Chamberlain, and my grand-
mother a Hart — well-known names in the old Chamber of
Exeter. My father was, I think, the last Receiver of Exeter
when Mr. De la Garde was Mayor. He was a South Devon
man, and his mother a Serjeant, of Liskeard. My wife was
a Lawrence, of Launceston. My eldest brother was for
more than fifty years Rector of North Tamerton. He might
have taken out the freedom of the City, but neglected to
do so. The other day I attended the proclamation of
George V. in company with my old friend Richard Peter,
of this town [Launceston] , who was born on Oct. 9, 1809.
Our united ages exceeded 184 years, and Mr. Peter had lived
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in six reigns and I in five. I was ordained by Bishop
Phillpotts more than sixty years ago. I can go to London
now [from Launceston] much sooner than it used to take
me to ride on the mail from Bxeter to Launceston. We left
the New London Inn (Cockram's) at 3.30 a.m. and got here
at 9 a.m. numbed with the cold."
Rippon, as depicted astride the brewery horse, is certainly
a fine looking man, apparently well over six feet. He is
booted and spurred and wears a surcoat charged with the
arms of England ; in his right Jiand, which is encased in a
leather glove with large gauntlet, he holds a baton. On his
head he wears an elaborate erection made up of what
resembles a jockey's cap with peak, beneath an elaborate
college cap, or mortar board as we used to call them, with
tassels suspended from each corner and a rose in the front,
the whole being surmounted by a large plume of six ostrich
feathers. His horse is covered with a cloth and harness
ornamented with tassels and rosettes.
It would be of interest to learn something of the history of
the office of Herald which Rippon held. What body
appointed him and by whose authority did he wear such a
gorgeous uniform ? Was he appointed by the City Chamber ?
— the predecessor of the present day City Marshal perhaps.
H. Tapley-Soper.
163. Exeter Cathedral Library (IX., p. 177,
par. 142, et ante.) — Since the paragraph mentioned above was
written Dr. Craster has most kindly examined the Exeter-
Bodleian MSS. He went through my list of suggested
identifications and compared the 2° folio of each volume.
In the course of this work he has added seven more MSS.
as " almost certainly " belonging to the Dean and Chapter's
gift, making 93 volumes in all. Of these nine cannot be
found in the 1506 Inventory ; these are : — Nos. 14, 23, 28,
44, 45, 53, 60, 65 and 73 of Dr. Craster's list." Probably
five of these were Leofric MSS., and may have been too
precious to be used in the Cathedral services or in the
Library, so were put away safely, thus escaping being
inventoried.
It is a comfort to read in Canon Dalton's Collegiate Chirch
* No. 14, Bible, should be entered as 13-14111 century, not I2th.
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of Ottevy St. Mary that it is said that Dr. Oliver " used to
work in the Registry copying MSS. in pencil, to take home
and re-copy for the Press ; but evidently he did not revise
his proofs by the MSS. afterwards — a very dangerous
omission." This explains the number of errors that have
crept into the printed copies of the inventories. Among the
86 in the list published, there is one title wrongly given
and the proof- words of the 2° folio in 17 cases are inaccurate.
Dr. Craster thinks that all the MSS. now bound together
were so bound in 1506, and he believes that Wood had access
to no other information than that contained in the Bene-
factor's Register when he gave the number of MSS. in the
Exeter donation as 132 — this referring to the separate items
as given in that list. He also says that the Grandisson
Hebrew MSS. I mentioned were the gift of Sir Robert
Cotton. Frances Rose-Troup.
164. John Mudge, Printer. — I have in my possession
a leaflet issued by John Mudge, printer, of 3, Duke Street,
Dock, apparently in the year 1814, in which he claims the
right for all printers to print Acts of Parliament and sell
them in competition with the King's printer. The particular
Act in question was one for " Lighting, &c. the Town of
Dock," which was passed in the year specified. The leaflet
seems to be a particularly impudent production, for it bears
the Royal Arms, which Mudge was certainly not entitled to
use (whatever justice there might be in his general claim),
and it is headed " Under Royal Patronage," which is almost
certainly a false statement. Further, it has the misleading
description of himself as " Printer to the King," followed in
small letters by " and all his loyal Subjects." I have not
been able to find any reference to this Mudge or his work,
and he does not seem to have been connected with the well-
known Mudge family, but such sublime impudence as is
shown in this leaflet would augur well for his success in
business. The whole leaflet is as follows : —
[Royal Arms.]
under royal patronage.
Every Individual who has perused an Advertisement, stating that
no one but the King's Printer can print Acts of Parliament, may have
been (if they ever were so inclined) led to purchase an Abstract of the
Act for " Lighting, &c. the Town of Dock " ; and have been also told
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how much moiw «^uantageous it is to give Two Shillings (or more or
less, as the (or any other) Printer may please to charge) for an Abstract,
than purchase a True Copy from the Original at Eighteen Pence, under
the very considerative Motive of saving the Printer from Prosecution ;
and have also been recommended to buy the Abstract, to avoid the
Tediousness of the Act itself ; but I would ask any Man, whether, in
case of Dispute, or for any other particular Cause, he can be satisfied
with
LESS THAN THE LETTER OF THE LAW ?
when he knows the Liability to Perversion of the true Meaning and
Intent of the Act.
Where is the Authority that denies the Privilege of printing Acts of
Parliament f or, where the Authority that secures the Right to the
King's Printer ?
Having, during Four Sessions, worked on Acts of Parliament, when
in London, I beg Leave to inform all who have been so ridiculously
misled, that it is by no Means confined to the King s Printer, but as
common to all who can recommend themselves to the Job, as even
our own Parish Printing, laying entirely at the Disposal of some
individual Influence, and generally claimed by Strength of Interest, and
not from Merit, or real Desert and Right.
What with King's Printer, Stationer's Hall, and Parish hiflucnce,
every fair speculation is put under Contraband.
I again advertise the Publication to take place of the Act complete,
being a True Copy from the Original, at is. 6d. on Monday next,
July 25th, I beg to subscribe myself,
A fair Competitor,
John Mudge,
Printer to the King,
and all his loyal Subjects, No. 3, Duke-street, Dock.
R. Pearse Chope.
165. Teigngrace Church and Early Consecrations
(IX., p. 108, par. 93; p. 173, par. 138.) — Miss Lega-Weekes
seems to have run amok over Gratian. The author of the
Decvetiim did not live in the 14th century, "<;. 1311 A.D,,"
but in the 12th century, c. 1144. By birth a Tuscan, he
became a Benedictine monk, and was first an inmate of the
monastery of Classe, near Ravenna, and afterwards of St.
Felix at Bologna, where he completed the DecreUm.
He was a text writer and did not write glosses, his aim
being to harmonise disagreeing canons. His work was there-
fore called by him Concordantia discordantium canomim. In
writing it his method was first to propound a thesis and the
questions to which it gave rise, and then in answer to those
questions to marshal all the authorities he could find for and
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against. He usually harmonised the diffoicnces by a few
short notes shewing that the difference arose either because
one canon was later than, and therefore repealed, the other,
or that it was in force in a different locality, or that it was
made by a higher authority, or that one was of general, the
others being of local application. But Gratian did not write
glosses either on his own text or on the authorities he
quoted. His pupil Paucopalea may have done so, but glosses
were not allowed to be of authority in the schools.
A printed copy of Gratian's Decretiim, printed " within a
few years' range of 1414," i.e., 28 years before the first known
printed work appeared at Mainz (which was printed in 1442
from the stolen Laurentian type) is indeed a find. It is to
be hoped we may have fuller information about it.
Miss Lega-Weekes considers that both my translation
of the passage from Pope Vigilius and also my reference
(3 Dist. i., c. 24) need correction. May I briefly reply ?
Minitne. Gratian's work consisted of three parts — the first,
De ministeriis ; the second, Quaestiones ; the third, De Con-
secratione. The third part is again divided into four
Distinctiones. The passage from Vigilius will be found in
the first Distinction of the third part with a c. 24 prefixed.
Possibly Miss Lega-Weekes may not be aware that a
continuous numbering of the passages cited first appears in
Le Conte's edition of the Decntum, published at Paris in
1556. It would not therefore be found in the prehistoric copy
which she has unearthed. Since 1556 it has been followed
in all editions. The reference III. Dist. i., c. 24, is therefore
quite correct. It will be found on p. 1,135 of the authorised
edition published by Richter in 1836, which also contains
the notes of the 35 Correctores Romani appointed by Pius V.
(1566-1572) to revise the corrupt text, who completed their
work in 1582. The heading in Richter's edition is " Vigilius
Papa ad Eleutherium Epist. i., c. 4," upon which the Cor-
rectores remark in note 117: "Tribuitur Juliano in ed. Par.
et Lugdd. Julio in rell. et Iv. Pan. Est in epistola Vigilii
ad Profuturum script., A.D. 538."
The usual meaning of Sanctuarium is a holy place or a
place devoted to holy purposes. The part of a church where
the altar stands is therefore called Sanctuarium. So is the
glebe-land given for the support of a church and its
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incumbent. And being a place, it would be here more
correctly understood of the cupboard or shrine placed under
the altar than of the contents of the shrine, to which in this
passage another name is given, " the pledge of the Holy
Ghost." Whoever he may have been, the gloss-writer seems
to have felt the force of Sanctuarium being a place for relics
rather than the relics themselves. So after reliquiae sanc-
torum he suggested vel altaria.
Undoubtedly the Gelasian Sacramentary shews that in
the eighth century the blessing of a church by a priest
consisted of prayers, sprinkling with a mixture of water and
wine after it had been blessed and the offering of the Eucharist
(Wilson, The Gelasian Sacramentary, No. cxxxviii., p. 133),
not quite the same things as those enumerated by Miss Lega-
Weekes ; but consecration by a bishop was a much more
solemn rite, and for this we must go to the Pontifical not
to the Sacramentary. Oswald J. Reichel.
[This correspondence must now cease. — Eds.]
i65. Early Tours in Devon and Cornwall; The
" Great House," Colyton {Appendix, p. 179, note 4.) — As
the " Great House," Colyton, is some twelve or thirteen
miles from Fairmile, via Ottery, Dr. Richard Pococke is
not at all likely to have seen it ; the seat of Sir Wm. Yonge
that he saw was, of course, Escot, quite near to Fairmile.
Melchizedeck Alford (son of William Alford, of Lyme
Regis, gent. ; matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, 10
Dec, 1 64 1, aged 18; B.A., 1648; Vicar of Ottery St. Mary,
March 20, 166° ; buried at Ottery St. Mary, 10 Aug., 1689),
married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Richard Channon,
of Escot, Esq. With his wife and two daughters he con-
veyed Escot, in 1680, to Sir Walter Yonge. From that date
Escot became the residence of the Yonge family, and not
the Great House, Colyton ; though their vault in Colyton
Church continued to be their place of burial {D.N. d^Q.,
vol. v., p. 129.)
The following entries from Talaton Registers are an addition
to the Channon Pedigree as given by Vivian, p. 167 : —
1621. Margery, the wife of Mr. Richard Channon, buried
Dec. II.
1622. Mr. Phillip Channon, gent., buried Aug. 7.
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*i633. Frances Chanon, widdow, buried Aug. 26.
1642. M""' Katherine Channon, wife unto Richard
Channon, Esqr., buried ffeb. 21.
1653. Richard, son of Melchizedeck Allford, gent., baptized
Jany. 17.
1654. Margaret, daughter of Melchizedeck Alford, clic,
baptized March 20.
1654. Richard, son of Melchizedeck Alford, clic, buried
Jany. 20. A.J. P. S.
167. Church Bands (IX., p. 124, par. 106; p. 149,
par. 121 ; p. 161, par. 135).— Mr. Henry E. Bridgman, of
Budleigh Salterton, informs me that he has a distinct
recollection of the band in Stokenham Church, which gave
place to an organ about the year i860. He well remembers
old John Randall, a blacksmith, giving out from the west
gallery the Tate and Brady psalms, two verses at a time,
in good Devonshire intonation. Mr. John Wm. Rhymes,
who has played the organ in Stokenham Church since
April 17th, 1887 — ^just thirty years — and has only missed
two services, believes that the band was composed entirely
of members of the Randall family. John Randall, the father,
played the " bass " ('cello), and, of the sons, Peter played
the violin, Richard the flute, and, he thinks, WiUiam Henry
the cornet, but he does not know whether there were any
other instruments. The members of Mr. Rhymes' own
family were vocalists in the choir, of which his father was a
member for more than fifty years. R. Pearse Chore.
168. Church Bands (IX., p. 161, par. 135, et ante.) —
Canon John Shearme, a. native of Cothill, Stratton, in his
interesting volume of reminiscences entitled Lively Recol-
lections, published recently, mentions the musicians who
performed in Stratton Church. In reply to an invitation
from the Editors to favour us with further notes on the
subject, he replied, " I am afraid I cannot be of much use
to you in writing an article in your journal, much as I
sympathise with you in the desire to preserve some records
of the old days," but in the course of a very interesting
• Vivian states that she was a daughter of Richard Calmady, of
Farwood, in Talliton parish ; it should be Colytoii.
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letter says: "I sang as a boy in the choir of Stratton
Church with the ' all sorts of music' The remarks before
the playing of the hymn were somewhat amusing at times
when the violin or 'baaze' viol players were not quite in
tune — * Y'um hardly 'igh enough, Jack — screw her up a
mite.' The Clerk used to leave his seat in the church at
the beginning of the Third Collect, and, if he was sharp,
was in the gallery in time to say * Amen ' at its close, if
not, the Amen resounded from the gallery stairs somewhat
muffled ! He then gave out the hymn and the chord was
sounded by the instruments, the clarionet or flute leading.
I remember Mr. Honey"'' as a flute player ; he was excellent,
was quite a remarkable man, and one of nature's gentle-
men. The Clerk gave out the hymn — as mentioned in Mr.
Crosse's article — ' Let us zing, etc' It was rather strange
sometimes to hear the cxix Psalm given out, ' Let us zing —
the one hundred and twenty first — one and twenty second —
one hundred and twenty third — one hundred and twenty fourth
verses, with Gloria — Praaze God from whom all blessings
flow ! '
" Our great bass singer was Sam Peardon, the same man
of whom I speak in my book as beating the drum. Sam
had a very deep voice and gloried in the lower C — and I
as a boy was keenly on the look out to see him do it ; he
made an extraordinary grimace over it, but when he got
the note you could hear it well. I cannot remember much
about Mr. Saunders, though I knew him, and his stout
figure comes to my memory. I never heard what became
of the instrument he invented or to what pitch of perfection
he brought it. It was a species of harmonium. He was
working some twelve years at it, and the village youths
gathered outside his windows on the winter nights to listen
to the awful noises which emanated from within the house.
They probably imagined Mr. Saunders had some caged
beast he was tormenting. Apropos of that, a farmer told
me many years ago that he had a maid who went to
Poundstock Church. She had not been accustomed to go
to church, but one afternoon she sallied forth, and on her
return told how she turned westward with the people to
hear the music and was much astonished to hear a noise
* Referred to in Mr. Crosse Crosse's article, p. 163, ante.
202 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
which she said came from a little ' caave which cried
out as they drawed a stick across his stomach — There now,
I cude 'ardly bare for hear 'um, he groaned so terrible-Hke.' "
Saunders mentioned in the above extract from Canon
Shearme's letter is referred to in Lively Recollections on
pp. 32-4 : " At the neighbouring village of Poughill there
dwelt a musical genius named Saunders, who had for many
years been inventing an instrument of the harmonium species.
No one had ever seen it, though many had listened to weird
howls and growls and shrill whistling sounds proceeding
from his house. Great was the excitement, therefore, when
it was announced that the instrument was actually com-
pleted and would be played for the first time in Poughill
Church on Christmas afternoon as an accompaniment to an
anthem, composed especially for the occasion by the talented
Saunders. My brother and I determined to go and hear it.
The service proceeded as usual, till the proper moment for
the anthem arrived. The Vicar, not knowing what title to
give it, simply announced : * Let us sing to the praise and
glory of God — the anthem.' Then was heard much pre-
liminary tuning of fiddles, bass-viols, flutes and clarionets,
interspersed with unearthly noises from the new instrument.
The congregation turned round to face the west gallery, as
was the custom whenever an anthem was given. At length
the curtain which hid the choir was drawn aside and the
singing began with female voices alone : ' And Josup,' the
male voices continuing : * And Maary.' This was repeated
several times, accompanied by tremendous blasts of in-
strumental chords, in which Saunders' new invention took
a very prominent, though very unharmonious part. Then
the anthem proceeded, women and men singing the same
words alternately." Eds.
i6g. Legge, Robert, of Grete Totton, Devon. —
A friend recently supplied me with an extract from the
will of Robert Legge, of Grete Totton as follows : —
♦' I bequeath my soul to Almighty God and my body
to holy grave to be buried in the church erth of our blessed
lady's pisshe church of the saide grete Totton.
It : I bequeath to the Prior and vicary of the said church
for tithes and offerynges forgotten vi'' viii^-
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 203
It : I bequeath xx"- of lawful money of England to bye
a grete bell the which shalbe a tenor to the other mi bells
and hit shalbe called our Lady bell well soundyng and
chosen by the discrecion of myn ov'"seers, the which shall
toll to the pdon aveys that is to say atte vi'*" howre in the
mornyng at xii howre at Midday and at vi howre in the
eventyde."
The testator states he was born at Colbroke, Devon.
The will was proved 1508.
A Robert Legg was Mayor of Totnes 1503 and again
1504, possibly the maker of the will.
It would appear that the new bell was duly bought. In
1442 it appears from a document among the Corporation
Muniments there were only four bells and they were conse-
crated " on the Monday after the Feast of Transubatantiatioa Jg-n ^i
of St. Thomas the Martyr, 1442." Leland, the historian^ who
visited Totnes in the reign of King Henry VIII., mentions
in his Itinerary these bells and writes of them as " the
greatest bells in all these quarters." In the Inventory of
Church Goods, 7 Edward VI., 1553, in the Record Office is
the entry, " Tottenes v bells in the towre there."
3«^^.2^^ Edward Windeatt.
170. De la Tour Family. — I shall be grateful if any
reader of D. & C. N. S' Q. can supply information concerning
the above family, which settled in Barnstaple in or about
the year 1680. Peter de la Tour was a naturalised Huguenot
nobleman from La Rochelle, who married into the Barnstaple
family of Berry. My father was James de la Tour Berry,
son of William Berry, born in Exeter about 1795 ; his
family came from Barnstaple or the neighbourhood. /
Oscar de la Tour Berry, ot^v*!/-
4',
171. HoLCOMB RoGUs Parish Accounts: The Dog 'f f
Whipper (IX., p. 175, par. 139, ei ante.) — Is it not probable
that the los. paid to one Robert Smith for whipping the
dogs may refer to the post of huntsman (or " whipper-in,"
as locally termed) to the pack of hounds formerly kennelled
at Holcombe Rogus ? I have no information as to how
many years the pack existed, but about the year 1893 the
one belonging to the late Rayer, Esq., of Holcombe
Court, was abolished. A. G. Gidley.
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172. West Country Clock and Watchmakers (IX.,
p. 185, par. 154, et a?ite). — Mr. Pearse Chope's additional
list will be welcomed by all who are interested in old clocks,
the number of which, judging by the correspondence which I
have received since my last communication, being much larger
than would be supposed. I should like to particularly thank
for their reports Miss Cresswell, Miss M. Hare, Mr. C. Biggs,
Mr. F. Day, Mr. Elijah Chick, Colonel Croft Lyons, Mr.
John M. Martin, Mr. G. Lyne, Mr. Prescott Row, the Rev.
O. J. Reichel, Mr. A. J. P. Skinner, and Mr. Willis Watson.
Several of the names in Mr. Pearse Chope's list are
quite new to me. John Oatway's name I had come across
before in Notes and Queries, lis., XII., p. 160, at which
reference Mr. J. Landfear Lucas says, " a grandfather clock
at Bideford bears the name John Oatway, Torrington," and
asks "What was the date of this maker?" It is probable
that this is the same John Oatway who Mr. Pearse Chope
mentions as figuring in the Hartland Churchwardens'
Accounts, and from which source I expect he can answer
Mr. Lucas's question.
The following names are additional to the lists already
published : — Bickle, R. H., Bishop's Nympton ; Bradford,
, Tiverton ; Bradford, , Drayford, Worlington,
nr. Witheridge (the specimen seen had only an hour hand) ;
Braund, John, Hatherleigh ; Brayley and Street, Bridgwater ;
Bucknell, Ja'- Crediton (clock and watch) ; Chamberlain,
Hen'- Tiverton ; Chasty, Robert, Hatherleigh ; Chasty,
William, Teignmouth.
I was assured by the owner of a clock by W. Chasty
that he was a member of a well-known Teignmouth family
of clock makers. I should be very grateful for reports of
other examples. A correspondent writes that Robert Chasty
" often permitted me to see him at work cutting cog-wheels,
etc.," and that he " was an aged man when I knew him
in the forties." Day, Christopher, South Molton ; Drake,
R., Beaminster ; Follet, , Sidmouth ; Foster, James,
Ashburton ; Fox, John, Alverton ; this name appears on the
dial of a clock the movement of which bears the name
" J. P. Vibert, Penzance." There is a village called Alverton
near Penzance. Card, Henry, Exeter ; Gard, William^
Exeter ; Gaydon, J., Barnstaple ; Gould, , Bishop's
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Qqeries. 205
Nympton ; Gould, G., South Molton; Gould. George [of] George
Nympton, near South Molton ; Harding, Charles, Sidmouth ;
Harner, ?John, Colyford ; Harner, , Membury ;
Hutchins, William, Cullompton ; Huxtable, E., South Mol-
ton ; Huxtable, , Chittlehampton ; Jacobs, A., Torquay ;
Kerfutt, Walter, Exon ; Liscombe, Rich'*- [? of Kingsteignton
or neighbourhood] ; Lord, John, Farringdon ; March, R.,
Honiton ; Otercey, John, Torrington ; Passmore, R., Barn-
staple : Pile, Era, Honiton (a good example at the Dolphin
Hotel, Beer) ; Price, , Wiveliscombe ; Rew, Joseph,
Wiveliscombe ; Sayer, Mathw., Exon; Scoble, John S.,
Colyton ; Simons, A., Bideford : Snell, E., Barnstaple;
Stocker, , Honiton ; Strowbridge, , Dawlish ;
Stumble or Stumbels, , ? of Totnes ; Vibert, J. P.,
Penzance. There is a very tall and handsome clock at
Powderham Castle reputed to be by Stumbel, of Totnes.
Pasted inside the door of the case is a slip of paper on
which is printed " Mr. Stumbel's Directions to the Person
who has the care of this clock," etc. No other specimen
by this man has been recorded, and I doubt if the evidence
provided by the piece of paper referred to is sufficient to
warrant the conclusion that he was the maker. In style
this clock is unlike other specimens of west country work.
Can any reader who has access to Totnes records give
any information about Stumbel ? ; Thorn, , South
Molton , Thorne, Mich'- South Molton ; Tucker, R., Bide-
ford ; Waldron, John, Tiverton ? I have also met with the
following records but have not succeeded in tracing examples
of the work of the persons mentioned : —
" Newman, George, Watchmaker, and Eiiz. ivlelhuish
Butter, by lie." — Topsham Marriage Register, Apr. 30, 1774.
" Trevor, Richard, Watchmaker, and Margaret Elliott, by
lie." — Topsham Marriage Register, 17 Feb., 1790.
" Joseph Trist, of Exeter, who is reported to have been a
Clockmaker, was buried at the Mint, Exeter, about 1830-35."
" Scadding, James, of Sydmouth, Clockmaker, and
fflorence fFollett, sp., 30 Aug., 1728." — St. Pancras, Exeter,
Marriage Register.
" John Lamley, of the City of Exeter, Ciockmaker, and
Dinah Legg, of the same, widow." — Exeter Marriage Licences,
1700.
2o6 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
•' Adrian Dupuy, of Plymouth, Watchmaker, and Florentia
Foalus, of Charles, Plymouth, widow." — Exeter Marriage
Licences, July lo, 1734.
"Joseph Crago, Carpenter (who married Rachael, daughter
of James West, of the parish of Sidbury, Clockmaker), died
April 15 and was buried the 22, 1766." — Colyton Burial
Register.
" George Peream, of Axminster, Clockmaker and Gun-
smith, and Hester Peream, of Ottery St. Mary, 6 Jan.,
1742." — Exeter Cathedral Church Marriage Register.
In the Exeter Guildhall is the will of John Savidge in
which he is described as " of the City of Exeter, Clock-
maker"; it is dated 1627, and was proved in the same year.
I should be very glad to learn of examples of his work or
any biographical details concerning him.
The Exeter Museum has recently acquired an interesting
collection of watches bearing the names of the following
Devonshire makers : — " W"- Curtis, Exeter " " Math"- Sayer,
Exon " ; "A. Simons, Biddeford " ; " R. Tucker, Bideford " ;
"Pet'- Upjohn, Bideford"; "Ja'- Bucknell, Crediton "
" Strowbridge, Dawlish " ; " John Tucker, Tiverton " ; "John
Lord, Farringdon." It is perhaps doubtful if the latter is
a local specimen, as it seems unlikely that such a small
place as Farringdon, near Honiton, would support a maker.
There is a Faringdon in Berkshire. The collection was
presented to Exeter by the South Kensington Museum
authorities, having formed part of a collection made and
bequeathed to the nation by Mr. Evan Roberts. Concern-
ing Strowbridge, of Dawlish, a correspondent from that
town in a recent issue of the Express and Echo raised
doubts about Strowbridge's claim to be a maker. He says,
" We have a clock which has been in our family for many
generations. A great number of years ago it needed repair-
ing and was sent to Mr. Strowbridge. When it came back
his name * H. Strowbridge, Dawlish,' was engraved upon
the dial." This and my note above re John Fox corroborates
the opinion which I expressed in my first communication
on this subject, that many of those who are now regarded
as makers were actually only repairers or vendors. There
are several long case clocks about the County bearing the
name of Thorne. The following extract from a manuscript
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 207
letter book of Martin Dunsford, the author of the History
of Tiverton, lately acquired by the Exeter City Library, will
assist in fixing the date of Abraham and Simon Thorne.
In a letter to his sister, Mrs. French, dated 14 February,
1759, Dunsford says, "Abraham, son of Simon Thorne,
Clockmaker at the lower end of our street, ridded house
last Sunday night and is gone off, having taken in a number
of watches to righting, many of which it is like have been
privately sold. And Mr. Smale the Landlord has found
means to come at some. Mr. Stone next to Mr. Terry and
my Cousin Martin who are two of y® sufferers can neither
of 'em tell y* time of y^ day and tell me has asked severall
others without information and laugh at one another whilst
others are more gravely condoling on the like occasion."
"><:x p.'! SI- H, Tapley-Soper.
173. The Revd. Thos. Bedford, B.D., and his
Descendants (IX., p. 172, par. 137.) — I do not wish to
anticipate replies to the above, but I should like to say
that, by the courtesy of the Vicar of St. Andrew's parish,
Plymouth, I have been enabled to search the register and
found the following entry : —
August, 1633. — Baptism — " 13th, William, son of Mr.
Thomas Bedford, Preacher."
I have also been privileged to obtain a copy of the
minute of the Kelway Trust in 1759, showing that the
John Bedford who succeeded to the Headmastership of
Plymouth Grammar School on the death, in 1738, of the
John Bedford, the previous master, was the same who after-
wards became Vicar of Charles, Plymouth.
(Extract.) — " John Bedford (the Headmaster of the
Grammar School) being elected Vicar of Charles parish, in
the room of the said W"- Brent . . . and the said
John Bedford having since his election resigned his office of
Headmaster of the Grammar School, &c."
I wonder where this Vicar of Charles was before he
became Headmaster of the Grammar School? W. S. B.H.
A William Bedford, B.A., was instituted Vicar of Whit-
church, near Tavistock, 15th Sep., 1769, and resigned in
1785, and according to a list in the church porch at Mary
Tavy, a William Bedford was instituted there in 1775. — Eds.
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174. Destruction of Vermin. — The importance of the
reduction of vermin has often been pressed upon farmers
and is now universally recognised as of vital importance in
the production of our food supply, but it is probably rare
for a vestry meeting to pass such a resolution as follows : —
" A Resolution in Vestry this gth day of April [ ] . It's
unanimously agreed that Crows, Magpies, Red owls, fitches
and foxes are animals very prejudicial to the Welfare of
the Farmers and country in general we do agree to pay for
killing the same the sum of Two pence for each Bird and
fitch and the usual fee for foxes.
Jos. Davie Bassett,
John Caddy."
The date is illegible, but as Mr. Davie took the name
of Bassett in 1803, and the name appears to have been
added by him to the plain signature Jos. Davie, the date
would probably be about 1802-3.
The bag recorded in the churchwardens' accounts in-
cludes also a number of hedgehogs, several badgers, polecats,
jays and sparrows. The "usual fee" for a fox was 2s. 6d.,
5s. for a vixen. Incidentally it may be remarked that fitch,
generally spelt " fitchay " or " ficthey," is a stoat, the weasel
being known locally as a " vair," a word which has not yet
been recorded in the Trans. Devon. Assoc, list of verbal
provincialisms. Rouge-et-Noir.
175. Surname Prideaux. — Can any of your readers tell
me why some members of this ancient west country family
adopt, and, in some cases, insist on " Priddix " as the
pronunciation of their patronymic, whilst others are content
with the more usual French form ? Curiosus II.
176. Ammiell Weekes (VI., p. 154, par, 142.) — From
Seaton Registers : —
1631. Ammiell, son of Georg Weekes and Jane his wife,
baptized 6 November, being the Saboth day at
evening prayer time.
1634. Jane, dau. of George Weekes and Jane his wife,
bapt. 6 April.
1636. Josepe, son of George Weekes and Jane his wife,
bapt. 4 December. A. J.P. S.
Arms of the Planters of New England.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 209
177. Seal of the Council for the Affairs of New
England in Plymouth, Co. Devon. — As a New Englander,
I appeal to the readers of D. &• C.N. & Q. to help us to
find a good wax impression of the Double, or Great, or
Common, Seal of the " Council for the Affairs of New
England in Plymouth, Co. Devon " ; i.e. the re-organized
or (falsely so-called) Second Plymouth Company of 1620.
If found it would be of value to both countries, and the
approaching Tercentenary of Plymouth in New England
would make the discovery specially interesting. The frag-
ments of the Council's Records show that the matrix of the
Great Seal was then kept in London. It was probably in
use from about 1622 to 1635, the date of the surrender of
the Council's Patent. Mr. R. N. Worth, in the last edition
of his History of Plymouth, page 78, gives a list of known
Patents. Some of the earlier Patents were issued by the
Council, with the individual seals of the Executive Board,
before the Great Seal was in use. But there were also
probably Patents issued under the Great Seal, which were
known to New England only by copy, and others, like the
Thomas Cannock Patent, which were removed to distant
colonies, and so perhaps home to England. It is probable
where a Patent was issued to partners that both had sealed
copies. The locus in quo was Plymouth (not London), and
it seems possible that the Patents signed and sealed by the
Council were sent down to Plymouth, to be legally and
effectively transferred by a local agent to the Patentees or
their representatives " between the four benches of the
Guild Hall at Plymouth." The Town Clerk of Plymouth
may have acted as transfer agent, recorded the transfers on
the town books, and kept a good impression of the Seal for
comparison. No such records, or Seal, are now reported at
Plymouth, but they may have been preserved in other hands
when the early files were scattered to the four winds, as
noted by Mr. Worth.
There is no perfect impression of either face of the Seal
known in New England, and there has been some un-
necessary question whether the design of the coat of arms
(with supporters and motto) preserved to us is that of the
" Council for the Affairs," etc., or that of its predecessor,
the Second Virginia Colony. This seems a needless doubt,
p
210 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
as the form for the earlier organization was prescribed in
the original inclusive Royal Patent of 1606 to the First and
Second Colonies of Virginia. The form was closely followed
by the Home Council and the Council for the First Colony,
and was probably used by the Second Colony when it issued
its Commission to Capt. John Smith in 1617 and "made me
Admiral of the Country for my life under their hands and
the . . . Colonels (thus printed) Scale, for New Englajid."
He, Captain Smith, claims his title, but gives no Council
Seal in any early issue of his map prior to 1631. The shape
of the early seals was a vesica 2f by i| inches, more or less,
with " the King's Arms engraven on the one side thereof,
and his portraiture on the other." " And the Seal for the
Council of the said Second Colony shall also have engraven
round about the one side thereof the aforesaid words,
' Sigillum Regis Magnae Britanniae Franciae et Hiberniae,'
and on the other side, ' Pro Concilio {sic) secundae Coloniae
Virginiae.' " There are no supporters, no other legend, and
no room for either in this early design. After the early
Popham failure at Sagadahock, the Second Colony did not
press the settlement of the country and had little need of
any seal. The Royal Patent of 1620 to the re-organized
" Plymouth " syndicate or Council aforesaid grants them a
common seal, but does not dictate the design.
We know that " Mr. Clarentious " (Wm. Camden, King
of Arms) was consulted about the contemporary design for
the common seal of the rival association, the re-organized
Virginia Company, and it is pleasant to think that he may
also have supplied the one in question. There is some hope
that we may find the design of both seals in the notes at
the British Museum called " Camden's Gifts." There is no
record of either at the College of Arms, but they may have
been erased at the surrender of the Patents. The better
known design of the London (or Virginia) Company shows
two armed men for supporters, as the Southern Virginia
Colony was intended as a bulwark against Spanish aggres-
sion. The rival organization was less exposed to attack and
made its appeal for more pacific settlement. It chose as
the supporters for its coat of arms, apparently, Religion or
Education and Colonization. The earliest known example
of their coat of arms is on the title page of Capt. John
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 211
Smith's Genevan Historie of Virginia, New England and the
Summer lies, London, 1624. The best example is found in
the perfect copies of Capt. John Smith's Advertisements for
the Unexperienced Planters of New England, or Anywhere, London,
1 63 1. The title page of the Advertisements further reads : —
" With the Countrie's Armes, a description of the Coast
Harbours . . . ; with the Map allowed by our Royall
King Charles." On the reverse of the title page is a rough
woodcut, an unbalanced sketch of the generally accepted
arms of the Council aforesaid, with supporters and motto.
The Advertisements rarely shows the contemporaneous map,
but when found the issue of 1631 gives for the first time
on the copperplate a reproduction of the same coat as the
woodcut. The design on the map shows some slight
modification of the details of the mantling and the handling
of the motto-scroll, but is much better balanced and better
adapted to the circular face of a Great Seal.
Arms : In base, argent three bars wavy azure ; in chief,
quarterly, France and England quarterly, i and 4 ; (2) Scotland ;
(3) Ireland.
Crest : On a helmet of its degree, on a bridled sea horse
(?) Neptune holding a trident.
Supporters : Dexter, a woman clothed, right arm and breast
hare, holding in her right hand a large book clasped, on the right
shoulder a (?) dove ; sinister, a woman clothed, both fore arms
hare, holding in her left hand a square and dividers.
Motto (below) : " Gens Incognita Mihi Serviet." No
border or additional legend is given either on the map or
the title-page. So much for the only known design of the
arms of the Planters of New England.
For the "other side " (I hesitate to say definitely obverse
or reverse) we have a few fragments of red sealing wax
preserved with the 1631 Trelawney Patent at Portland,
Maine, and some larger fragments in worse condition at
(New) Plymouth in Massachusetts. These latter fragments
were found attached to the second Patent issued to the
settlers at Plymouth Colony, 13th January, 1629, in
enlargement of their earlier powers. As stated before, not
all the issues of the Council bore the Great Seal. The
Pierce Patent, issued ist June, 1621, under which the
Plymouth Colony lived at first, did not have it. The
212 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
earliest mention of the common seal is on the Patent to
Gorges and Mason, loth August, 1622. With the excep-
tion of the fragments belonging to the Trelawney and
Second Plymouth Patents, the seals of all the known
Patents in this country have disappeared either from
neglect or malicious intent. The remains of the Great Seal
are now to be found at the Registry of Deeds, Plymouth,
Massachusetts. It was originally about 4f inches in
diameter. The wax composition was reddish brown and quite
hard. It seems probable that some strain on the pendant
split the seal into layers, and that these have been fractured
and cross-fractured. Of course, there is the tradition,
common to all seals, of its use for cracking walnuts. The
Seal is known to have been detached from the Patent as
early as 1818, when the fragments were "cemented"
together by a watchmaker without knowledge of heraldry
or numismatics. Apparently selected fragments were placed
more or less at haphazard, and others, perhaps those of the
opposite "face," were fused and poured into the interstices,
making a questionable mosaic. Since 1818 the Seal has
been broken in new lines of fracture. The present " other
face" tells nothing definite. There was evidently a modern
Tudor, or Stuart, craft " on waves," seen in threequarter
profile : one mast and shrouds are preserved ; also anchor,
hawsepipes and ports. There is the suggestion of a shield
now lying on its side, which quite possibly hung on the
mast, although it might belong to the other "face." The
coat of arms of the London- Virginia Company had the
cross of St. George on the escutcheon and supporters, as
an allusion to London, while the ship in our case may well
be an allusion to the home town. The " ship on waves "
is found also on the Sigillum Aquate of Saltashe, as well
as on that of its neighbour and rival, Plymouth. There is
some doubt as to whether the three masts of the latter's
seal were stripped, but as that of Saltash certainly bore
yards, the question seems to be settled and the masts
stripped for Plymouth. It is possible that the upper masts
on our Great Seal were hidden by the suspended shield,
which would naturally carry the Royal arms only in
contradistinction to the Council's shield on the *' other
face." There were two human figures, of indeterminate
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 213
sex, on brackets or on the shore, standing as flankers on
either side of the ship. Each had drawn back the inner
leg, apparently to make room for the prow and stern of the
craft. The (heraldic) dexter figure standing near the prow
is the better preserved. It is clad in a short, mid-thigh
petticoat, and holds with its right hand near the upper
nock a long bow, strung, while with the other hand it holds
a club, both resting on the ground. It is practically the
same pose as that of the Indian on inset in Smith's Map
of Virginia. The other figure is rather heavily robed about
the loins, with the legs bare, apparently, and holds in the
left hand and resting against the shoulder what might be a
sceptre, an olive branch or a trident. The right arm and
hand are missing. The artist would hardly select an Indian
warrior, an object of horror after the Virginian massacre,
and a discouragement to peaceful settlers. We are tempted
to think of the lovable Princess Rebecca, alias Pocahontas,
and of the fabled club, which did not fall on Captain John
Smith. The other figure might be Britannia, with a trident
oflfering to her sister Princess across the waves a copy of
King James' version of the Bible. If religion or the arts
and sciences are undressed for artistic effect on the " other
side," it would seem likely that the same taste would rule
in both cases. There are indications of mantling, but
whether it properly belongs to this or the " other side "
cannot be stated without careful dissection of the cemented
fragments. There are the remains of a rim or bordure, but
the inscription, though indicated, is illegible. There is
preserved among the Trelawny fragments a part of the
inscription which might be agn, and might be the remains
of Magnae Britanniae.
There have been three periods in our Colonial life when
there were general causes for the defacement of all such
seals or matrices. First, at the time of the attempted
resumption of the Patents ; second, at the Andros usurpa-
tion ; third, at the American Revolution, when we know
that all the matrices were purloined from the Council
Chamber in Boston in 1775. This impression was then in
Plymouth, but was exposed to the same ebullition of
sentiment against all the symbols of extraneous government.
The Plymouth Patent with the Seal was in private hands
214 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
for many years and only discovered after close search. It
was needed then as evidence in a prolonged dispute about
boundaries between the Colonies. Some zealous partisan
may have thought to destroy the validity of the Patent by
defacing the coat of arms on the Council Seal. It is to be
hoped that somewhere a perfect impression may be found.
Howard M. Buck.
N.B. — The circles on the chart are taken from the
impression at Plymouth.
178. Stoke Gabriel Sextons (IX., p. igo, par. 159). —
I have searched the early entries in the transcript of the
Stoke Gabriel Register made by Mr. A. J. P. Skinner for
the Devon and Cornwall Record Society and now deposited at
the Exeter City Library. This register is one of the most
complete in the county. It commences in 1538, but the
earliest entry relating to the Narracott family appears in
1604, when Roberte Norkote married Elizabeth Crappinge.
After this date the name frequently appears. The following
extracts will remove any doubt which may arise in the
reader's mind as to the relationship of Norkote to the modern
form Narracott, and provides an excellent, although, in
this case, conclusive example of the difficulties with which
genealogists have to contend owing to the unstable state of
the orthography of our ancestors.
Baptisms.
1604. 10 Feb., Alexander, s. of Robert Narcott.
1607. 20 July, David, s. of Robert Narocott.
1636. 5 May, Matthew, s. of Ellexander and Iset Narracott.
1639. Edward, s. of Alixander and Isate Narracott.
Burials.
1609. Robert Narakatt.
1642. Grace, d. of Alexander Narracott.
From this evidence it would appear that the name
Narracott was unknown in Stoke Gabriel prior to 1604,
when Robert, who was probably a stranger to the parish,
married Elizabeth Crappinge, probably a native, and settled
there. This appears to me to dispose of the contention that
the " office of Sexton has continued in the Narracott family
since 1440," a statement which, if true, would be difficult
to substantiate, owing to the fact that documentary evidence
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 215
of such parochial happenings does not exist for such a
remote period. One is sorry to deprive the family of what
is no doubt a cherished tradition, but historical accuracy
must receive attention. The knowledge that the pedigree
of this family can be traced through the register in unbroken
succession since 1604 to the present day should be sufficient
to sustain their pride in their beautiful village and interesting
old church. H. Tapley-Soper.
179. Some Studies in the Topography of the
Cathedral Close (IX., p. 188, par. 156.) — My quotations
from The Shillingford Letters and Papers as to the words
"eygge" and "egge" were from pages 94 and loi. The
passage cited by Mrs. Rose-Troup containing the word
" fryth " occurs, I find, on p. 86 ; and on inter-comparison
I agree that by " egge " Shillingford must have meant
" hedge," notwithstanding that the N. E. D. gives " egge "
as the I3th-i7th century form of "edge," whereas no
form of " hedge " appears therein without the initial h.
The N.E.D., the E. D. D., Halliwell PhilHps, and
Britten's Old Farming Words supply various definitions of
** frith " or " fryth," e.g., underwood, brushwood, or ground
overgrown with such, but those apparently best answering
to the " grete drie fryth " that " late was sette yn the
cymytere " are : — " a hedge, especially one made of wattled
brushwood " ; "a hurdle " ; " an enclosure surrounded by
a wreathed or wattled hedge." The E. D, D. cites, too, an
item from Woodbury Chw. Accts. of 1604, " Pd. for freath
and freathing about the Parish Close."
To revert to Shillingford (p. loi), it is not quite clear
whether the " gret parcell of tymber " was enclosed " to "
the frith, or " to " " the bak side of the costlewe billyng."
(By the way, I wonder whether the latter was the " Hos-
pitium de le Egle," which stood opposite the Guildhall.)
If the frith was a strip of ground confined by a hedge, and
lay between the back of the High Street houses and the
path bordering the churchyard, it may have been comprised
in the " Margeria Exon'," as may " the eygge bytwene the
cimitery and the cyte," " in " which a man was stabbed,
but it is possible that the terms "fryth," ^^egge" and
*' eygge " all designated a single hedge-row, and that this
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may have run in line with " certeine elmes . . . which
were . . . taken to be the boundes betwene the liberties
of the Citie and the Sanctuarie and privileges of the seyd
Churche " {Hooker, ed. by Harte, p. 217). The depositions
respecting these bounds are too lengthy for repetition in full,
but I gather (see Hooker, pp. 212-218, and Shillijtgford,
p. 138) that the City claimed jurisdiction over the '* ways ''
{inter alia) leading from St. Petrock's to St. Martin's and
from the latter to the Archdeacon's house, and that the elm-
trees grew along the inner (i.e. Churchyard side) of these
ways upon " bankes."
I thank Mrs. Rose-Troup for the references supporting
my remarks as to the distinction between the Churchyard
proper and the Close. As to my further contention that the
boundary-line of the Close must have been liable to variation,
I should have given in my book further particulars from
grants and leases had space permitted, and I still hope to
treat more fully, at some future time, of the tenements
between the High Street and the Cemetery.
Mrs. Rose-Troup's difficulty in seeing how " Bokerel "
and other houses near St. Petrock's could be " bounded on
the south by ' the Churchyard,' " may be lessened if she
takes into consideration the mention of [the part of] " the
churchyard of St. Peter where St. Petherick's parish use to
be buried in," and the gradual conversion of the site of the
present Globe Hotel from " part of the Cathedral Cemetery "
into a garden and houses. (My pp. 5, 180). Of course, I
use the terms " north " and " south " only approximately,
as do the old deeds. Ethel Lega-Weekes.
180. HoLCOMBE BuRNEL Church (IX., p. 183, par. 153).
— The shaft in the churchyard is the remains of the old
preaching cross, not a boundary cross. May not Windy
Cross, about a mile below Cotley Castle, be the cross of
Edric Borda? It stands at the junction of the roads for
Longdown, Shillingford, Dunsford and Exeter, just inside
a copse, into which it has been removed for preservation.
Though the present granite cross probably dates from
the fifteenth century, it may have replaced an older one to
mark the site of an important parish boundary.
Beatrix F. Cresswell.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 217
181. Wives of the Revd. John Coleridge. — Marriage
Licences, Exeter : —
1752, Oct. 10 — John Coleridge of South Molton, clerk, and
Hannah Laskey of Barum, spinster, at South Molton.
1753, Dec. 18 — John Coleridge of South Molton, clerk, and
Ann Bowden of the same, spinster.
From these entries it would appear that the reverend
gentleman was married three times, and that Ann Bowden
was his third and not second wife. But the Vicar of South
Molton (the *Rev. S. P. Scott) has kindly searched his
Register and informs me that it does not contain any record
of Coleridge's marriage to Hannah Lasksy, nor the burial
of a Hannah Coleridge. Did this marriage take place
elsewhere or did the parties alter their minds ? His first
wife was Mary Lendon. A. J. P. S.
182. Notes on the Churches of the Deanery of
Kenn (VHL, p. 222, par. 177). On page 231 your corres-
pondent suggests that possibly William Copplestone, of
Tedburn, was a son of Richard, of Woodland, and Gertrude
Sherman, and mentions that neither of the rectors, the Rev.
John Copleston and Rev. Edward Copleston, appear in the
pedigrees.
For some time I have been seeking information re the
Rev. John Copleston, baptized at Bideford 18 Aug., 1683,
son of Coriolanus and Mary Copleston, and elder brother of
Christopher Copleston, of Bideford. The said Coriolanus
Copleston was born at Alverdiscott on the 14th February,
1654, and was son of Lancelot Copleston of that place by his
second wife. I should be grateful to any of your readers
who could tell me whom this Rev. John Copleston married,
where he lived, and when he died. He had a son Coriolanus,
born 1 718, who was curate in charge at Luton, Beds,
1770-1790.
In the course of my enquiries I have come across the
name of another, Rev. John Copleston, the Rector of Tedburn,
obit 1 73 1.
In the registers of the parish church at Crediton are the
following entries : —
Under date 8 January, 1701. Marriages — " Lardar
Copelstan and Mary Parker."
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Under date 24 November, 1709. Burials — "Richard
Coles, servant with Mr. Copleston, of Tedburn, who died
suddenly."
On enquiring further I found that the Rev. John Copleston.
of Tedburn, was an ancestor of Dr. Edward Copleston,
Bishop of Llandaff.
Now from the slab in the church at Tedburn it would
appear that William Copplestone and the Rev. Edward
Copplestone were related ; and as the Rev. John Copleston
preceded Edward Copleston as rector, may we not assume
that he was related to both of them ?
Col. Sir John Copleston, Sheriff of Devon, 1656-8, married
Grace, d. of Anthony Copleston and his wife Mary, daughter
and heiress of Humphrey Larder, of Upton Pyne. His
second son was christened Larder.
Both Sir John and Dr. Edward were of the Dorset
branch of the family, and I think that the Rev. John, the
Rev. Edward and William Copplestone (gent.), of Tedburn,
were all of that branch and not of the Woodland branch.
^^ p. 75-^ ^<^- ^ ^ ^ W. H. Copleston.
183. Strode Crest (IX., p. 179, par. 146, tt ante). —
I am afraid that my note re above has been misunderstood.
I did not state that a ' savin ' and ' yew ' are the same, but
that the man I quoted called a 'yew' 'savin.' As a matter
of fact the actual plant was ' Taxus toccata adpressa.' It is
perhaps only a provincialism, but this old Devonian in his
ignorance did not distinguish between ' Juniperus ' and
* Taxus.' The crest on the medal which Lady Radford
mentions is in my opinion a yew and has been trimmed to
shape. One thing is quite certain, and that is that the crest
is not 'Jicnipenis' which is a low growing shrub. The
motto " Hieme Viresco" evidently refers to an evergreen tree.
G.S.
This correspondence must now cease. — Eds.
184. Hocktide. — The question has often been put to
me, what is Hocktide ? and I have done my best by
answering that it is the secular High or Festival time
after the close of the religious part of the Easter festival.
It is held on the Tuesday after Low Sunday, Low Sunday
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 219
being also known as "the close of Easter." From the North
Wilts Herald of 20th April, 1917, I enclose a few particulars
as to how Hocktide was this year kept at Hungerford in
the hope that they may interest your readers. I leave out
lists of names and jurymen, etc. O. J. R.
"Just sufficient *of the ancient custom at Hungerford in cele-
bration of Hocktide was observed to preserve the link with the past.
Bushnell, the town crier and bellman, in his well-known habit,
summoned in stentorian notes the commoners to the Council House.
Here Mr. T. W. Alexander (the constable) took the chair, and Mr.
H. D'O. W. Astley (clerk) sat below him. The jury having been
empanelled, the Constable's accounts showed a deficit on town
expenditure, but happily the satisfactory result of the fishing (net
credit of £q() 13s.) left a handsome sum in hand. There was an
unanimous request that the Constable should remain in office for a
fourth year.
The election of officers being proceeded to, the retiring Bailiff
became Portreeve. As Bailiff, Mr. A. Salt was elected. Two new
Tithing-men had to be appointed. The Water Bailiffs were elected.
The Overseers of the Common Port Downs were re-elected. The
Keepers of the Keys of the Common Coffer, the Constable, were
re-appointed. Messrs. L. H. Beard and A. J. Killick were charged
with the duty of upholding the quality of Hungerford ale. Edward
Bushnell was re-appointed bellman and town crier, and George New
was appointed hay ward.
The Constable and officers, with members of the jury, headed by
the bellman, walked in procession to St. Lawrence's Church."
185. North Molton Woollen Merchants' Marks
(IX., p. 89, par. 78.) — Mr. Day will find an interesting article
entitled " Some Devonshire Merchants' Marks " in vol. xxiii.
of the Transactions of the Devonshire Association. The figure 4
appears to be generally associated with woollen merchants'
marks, but why this should be does not seem to be known.
Of the 27 marks figured in the article referred to, no fewer
than 21 incorporate this figure in their design. The carvings
in the Greenway Chapel at Tiverton and the Lane aisle at
CuUompton provide many examples. H. Tapley-Soper.
186. Bradsel Family. — " James Samborne, dark " (who
was Rector of Upper Clatford, Hants, from 1609 to 1627)
married Christian Bradsel at Eling, Hants, on 25 Nov., 1605.
I desire to learn something of the ancestry of this
Christian Bradsel. Her family name is most uncommon,
and does not appear on the calendars of the Prerogative
220 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
Court of Canterbury. In Davies' History of Soiithampton,
p. 302, it is stated among charitable bequests, " Mr. Bradsell
gave to the vicar of Holy Rood £1 4s. yearly." In Foster's
Alumni Oxoniensis the only one of the name noted is Francis
Bradsell,//. gen. of Hants, who matriculated at New College,
Oxford, in 1596, aet. 20, proceeded B.A. in 1600, M.A. 1602-3,
B.D. i6ii,and was Rector of Stoke Bliss, Heref., 1604; of
Enham, Hants, i6ii ; Vicar of Eling, 1613 ; Rector of
Overton, 1614; and in 1619 was Vicar of Heavitree and
Ottery St. Mary, Devon.
Probably this Francis Bradsell was a brother of Christian,
who married James Samborne. Samborne was a Puritan,
and was the friend, tutor and feoffee of Sir Thomas Jervoise.
He died in 1626-7, and his widow survived him, and was
living at Upper Clatford, Hants, in 1637.
Any information your readers can give as to the families
of Bradsell, Bachiler or Samborne will be thankfully received.
V. C. Sanborn.
187. Early Churchwardens' Account, St. Mary Major
(Translation). — Account of John Sporier and John Root,*
Wardens of the store of the Church of the Blessed Mary
Major, Exeter. From the Feast of St. Michael Archangel,
A.D. 1410, II Hen. [IV.] to the same Feast, A.D. 141 1,
12 Hen. [IV.]
Arrears [Arr'') The same render account of 33^- g^'^-
arrears {i.e. Balance) from the last Account of the preceding
year. Sum 33' ^Y'
Fixed Rents {Reddif Ass') And of 13'' 4"'- rent from two
shops in North Street, Exeter, which Ralph Swayn now holds.
And of 13'' from the tenement late Peter Trobrigge's in
South Street, in the parish of Holy Trinity, which Thomas
Eston now holds by deed (cartam) for a term of 58 years,
this 12"* year from the giving of the same.
* The early Churchwardens' Accounts of this parish were believed
to have been all destroyed by fire, but I came upon this one account written
on a small roll of parchment) among the large collection of ancient deeds
belonging to the Charity Feoffees. I have deposited in the Exeter City
Library a transcript in Latin which some readers may care to compare
with this translation. It is to be wished that all the Feoffees' Deeds
could be transcribed in toio, as they contain many personal names
and other particulars omitted in the MS. Schedule of this collection
made by Samuel M. Cox, solicitor to the feoffees, in 1836.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 221
And of 2'- from a certain place formerly Nicholas Taverner's
in Smythyn-strete, which Will. Scotisham, butcher, now holds.
And of I2'*- from the Tenement formerly Will. Hele's,
outside the West Gate, which John Goodman acquired anew
{ex novo).
And of 18*^- from a chamber next the Church of St.
Petroc, Exeter, which John Nymet held, when alive, on the
west side of the little lane or " thrange " leading from the
Cemetery of St. Peter's to the said church of St. Petroc.
And of 3^- 4'^- from the tenement which Nicholas Goodman
formerly inhabited in the parish of St. Petroc.
And of 5'- from the tenement formerly of Thomas Pik',
now in the hands of the Mayor and! Commonalty of Exeter.
And of 2^- from the tenement of John Candeler in High
St., Exeter, opposite the Church of St. Stephen, which John
Hill, Knt. {yniles) lately held, and Robert Hille [or Hulle]
his son, now holds.
And of 12'^- from the tenement of John Oxton, which the
aforesaid John held when alive and which the said Robert
his son now holds ; which tenement lies in South Street
Exeter and is now inhabited by John Brasyvter.
And of 2'- 4*^- from the tenement of Andrew Lapflode,
formerly Rector of the Church of the Blessed Mary Major,
outside the East Gate with the adjacent garden.
And of 2'- 4'^- from the tenement in St. Paul's Street,
Exeter, formerly Hugh Ferrour's, which John Jolybloe now
holds.
And of 4'- from the tenement of Baldwin BoUe.
Sum 51^ lo'^-
Receipts from Outside {Recepf for")
And of 3=- 4'^- received from the legacy of M [aster]
Richard W^ikeslond.
And of ii=- y*^- collected from the parishioners on Easter
Day called " Wex siluer."
And from sale of wool of the Store, this year iS"^-
Sum i6'- ^^■
Total sum of Receipts with Arrears 102^- o^**-
Deficit of Rents {Defect' Redd') Whereof they reckon
in deficit of rent from the tenement formerly Thomas Pyk's
5^' because it is in the hands of the Mayor and Commonalty
of Exeter.
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In deficit of rent from the tenement formerly Andrew
Lapflod's outside the East Gate 2=- 4"^-
In deficit of rent from the tenement formerly Baldwin
Bolle's, which used to yield 4'- but now yields no more than
2'- and thus there is a deficit of 2^-
Sum 9'- 4*^-
Expenses. For one flagon and threequart [s ?] of oil,
bought, 21'^-
For 4 lbs. of Paschal candle* (parschcandel) bought for
saying Mattins on feast days in winter-time 6''-
For I lb. of green candle bought for Christmas night i^-
For 12 lbs. of wax bought against the Feast of Easter
5'- thus at 5^^- per lb.
For making up the same wax 6"^-
For washing! of vestments and surplices y'^-
For expenses gone^.to, about the rent of Baldwin BoUe,
and (? swearing^ againsjt the Warden and College of Vicars
Choral of the Cathedral Church of Exeter several items
this year 6^- 8<^-
For one flagon of wine for . . . of the church b^-
For nails bought of Nicholas Ma [rschel] for the door-
way above the bell tower and one little chest in the vestry,
for placing the Church books [in] , viz. (? in) the altar
there ^'^■
Item, to the same for one round plate of iron [disco few')
for the Thurible, and i nail for the coffer that is in the
vestry lo'^-
For grease for the church bells this year i^"^-
For I cord bought for the lamp V-
For tile-stone (lapid' tegl) bought for repairing the church
5'- price per thousand 2'- 6'^-
For carriage I5''-
For grease (unctur') bought for the west door of the
church, S"^-
*The great Paschal candle, a column of wax of exceptional size, stood
in a massive candlestick on the Gospel side of the High Altar. It was
lighted with much ceremonial from the newly blessed fire on Easter
morn, and remained in the sanctuary till Ascension Day. See Church-
wardens' Accounts, Dr. C. J. Cox, pp. 60, 161.
t Loc'oe, a contraction for lolione, a washing, commonly occurring in
such accounts, is sometimes mis-rendered locatione, hire.
I Jurat' cont'" (^contra) [or ?conc'"^ {concernend'.')']
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 223
For mending one wheel for the lesser bell of the
church 2|^-
For the making of three corporals ig''- with 5'^- for red
P'iartariny for the same.
For the mending of the pavement in the nave of the
church 6*^-
For the mending of the principal chalice of the church iS"^-
For one copy of the ... of the Town for the rents
of Baldwin Bolle, 4"^
For paper bought l^- Sum 28^- 2^^-
Payments of Obits {Soluc' Obituu')
For the obits of William Taverner, Robert Taverner,
John and Nicholas Godman and others 3'-
For the obits of Richard Olyuer, Joan his wife, John
Dyrkyn, Agnes Wodelegh and other benefactors of the
church 6=- S''-
For divers obits, paid the Rector of this church for
(? souls) of [persons who died in] the olden times, 2i^-
Sum II'- 5'^-
Sum of all Expenses 48'- ii^^-
And they owe 53'- i''- Of which there is allowed them
2=- of the rent formerly Baldwin BoUe's, which cannot be
collected (levari), of last year.
And 2^- of the same rent, of this year because it cannot
be ... . and because there is pending the arbitra-
tion of Richard Bosonn, Citizen of Exeter, as being newly
elected in this negotiation.
And they owe 49=- i''-
Of which there is allowed them 6'^- for expenses about
the Plea {p'lit') of the rents of Baldwin Bolle for several times.
And they owe 48^- y^-
Endorsed: — Account of John Sporier and John RofFe
ii*** and 12"' years of H. iiij° / 150 151.!
3^ p.7-^f, Ethel Lega-Weekes.
188. Richard Crosse. — It is stated that Richard Crosse,
the miniature painter, was born in Devonshire in 1745. Can
any reader give the name of his place of birth and where
*i.e., Cloth^ from Taitary. See Du Cange.
t The last was presumably the 151st of a series of bygone accounts
which have unhappily disappeared.
224 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
examples of his art can be seen ? The South Kensington
Museum appears to have only one specimen of his work.
Is a catalogue of his works known to exist ? Perhaps some
of his descendants survive who may have examples which
they would allow anyone interested in miniature painting to
examine. Or perhaps a loan exhibition could be arranged
at the Exeter Art Gallery in the Museum ? Is it not the
fact that it is often impossible for the possessor of a
miniature signed " R. C." to be certain whether it is the
work of Cosway or Crosse ? Student of Miniatures.
189. Devon and Cornwall Incumbents (IX., p. 160,
par 134, et ante). — We wish to thank the Rev. Ernest C.
Grimaldi, Vicar of Rattery, for the list of the incumbents
of his parish which he has kindly forwarded and which has
been filed with those previously received. Unknown to us,
the late Rev. G. L. Hennessy, Vicar of Monkokehampton>
was for many years engaged in extracting records of insti-
tutions from the Bishops' Registers. His manuscripts have
recently been acquired by the Exeter City Library, and will
prove most valuable in checking and compiling lists. — Eds.
igo. Family of Ericke. — Can any of your readers give
information concerning this family, some members of which
were living in West Cornwall in the first half of the
seventeenth century. About the year 1600 the manor of
Truthwall was granted by the Crown in fee simple to John
Ericke, at whose death it passed to his son, and in
like manner for one or two generations, after which, failing
male issue, it was inherited by Mary Ericke who in 1640
was married, at Phillack, to Michael Vyvyan. In 1624,
William Ericke married at Breage Margaret Oliver.
Witnesses to the will of James Penberthy, of St. Hilary,
dated 1620, are Francis Godolphin, Jane Sydenham and
William Ericke, clerk. E. Q. V.
191. "Crowned" (IX., p. 191, par. 161, et ante). — The
following entry from the Register of Stoke Gabriel appears
to be worth recording: — Burials, 31 Oct., 1637, " Oates
Lane, drowned and crowned." Curiosus II.
Dr. Gidley, Mr. Curzon Yeo and Mr. B. Glanvill Corney
are also thanked for replies.
The discussion of this subject must now cease. — Eds.
Thurstan Peter, F.S.A.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 225
192. Thurstan Peter, F.S.A. — The death occurred at
his residence at Trewirgie, Redruth, on Sep. 4, of Mr.
Thurstan Collins Peter, the distinguished Cornish antiquary
and historian.
Mr. Peter, who was born at Redruth on May 13th, 1S54,
was the third son of Mr. John Luke Peter, solicitor, of
Redruth. He came of an old Cornish family, the Peters of
Harlyn. His father, who married the third daughter of
Thurstan Collins, of St. Columb, was the second son of the
Rev. John Peter, who was the eldest son of the Rev. Robert
Peter, of Treviles, and who inherited Treviles and other
property through his cousin, Adml. John Luke. The Rev.
Robt. Peter died at Treviles, Tregoney, in 1822, as did
his grandson, the father of Mr. T. C. Peter, in 1900.
The Rev. Robt. Peter was the son of John Peter, J. P., of
Harlyn, in St. Merryn, who died in 1733, and married the
second daughter of Sir John Coryton, Bart., of Newton
Ferrers, near Callington. Mr. Thurstan Peter married in
1882 at St. Gabriel's, Warwick Square, Emily Frances,
youngest daughter of Rowland Berkeley, of Benefield,
Northamptonshire, and she pre-deceased her husband by
several years. There were of the marriage two children —
Mrs. Shepherd, wife of Lieut. John Chiene Shepherd,
Royal Engineers, and Miss Gwladys Theodora Peter — both
of whom survive him. Educated at Sherborne College, Mr.
Peter became articled to his father, and when 24 years of age
was admitted a solicitor, and commenced practice on his own
account at Redruth. Shortly after, however, he joined his
father, and the firm then became J. L. and T. C. Peter.
As a lawyer Mr. Peter developed a large practice and
held many important public appointments, chief among
which were registrar and high bailiff of Redruth County
Court ; superintendent registrar of births, deaths, and
marriages since 1891 ; secretary and solicitor of Redruth
Brewery Co. ; secretary and solicitor of Redruth Foundry ;
clerk to Redruth Board of Guardians since 1880 ; and clerk
to the Redruth Rural District Council. He was for
several years a member of the Redruth Urban District
Council. He also became clerk of the rural sanitary
authority, and when that body was superseded, took up
the clerkship of Redruth Rural Council.
Q
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His generosity was unbounded, as is evidenced by his
numerous donations and services ungrudgingly rendered for
the public good.
Outside his professional work, that which will leave the
most indelible mark are his antiquarian and archaeological
interests. His association with the Royal Institution of
Cornwall was early and important. He succeeded Mr. J. D.
Enys as president. Dr. Richard Pearce, ever the friend of
the advancing sciences and of research in Cornwall, gave
a considerable sum of money for the construction of a wing
to the Institution at Truro in memory of Dr. Barham,
a man of some eminence as a scientist in the county.
Thereupon Mr. John Charles Williams oflfered a substantial
sum provided a similar amount could be collected. That
this offer was accepted was largely due to Mr. Peter's energy
and with Mr. Henry Jenner, as hon. secretary, Mr. Peter
made the appeal which secured the full realization of the
scheme. When war broke out Mr. Peter was elected president
for a second term, so that he acted as president for four instead
of two years. He retired from the office last December.
With great ability Mr. Peter edited the Journal of the
Institution, first in conjunction with Major Parkyn, from
I goo to 1908, and when the latter died he became sole editor.
His literary output was considerable. The contributions
from his pen were : —
To the Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall : —
"The Exploration of Carn Brea" (with map and seven
plates), 1895, for which the Henwood gold medal was
awarded in 1896; Note on the "Superstitions in the Mining
District," 1897 ; Notes on the Church of St. Just-in-Penwith,
with II plates, 1899; Notes on St. Michael's Mount, with
seven plates, 1899; Notes on the Churches of St. Mylor
and St. Mabe, with ten plates, igoo; Remarks on the Aims
of the Institution, 1901 ; Report (with Mr. J. D. Enys and
Mr. H. M. Whitley) on Mural Paintings in Cornish Churches,
1901 ; "Piran Old Church," with six plates, 1904; Notes
on the Church of St. Ives, with four plates, 1905; "Tristan
and Iseult," 1907; Note on Cornish Folk Tales, 1909;
"Churchwardens' Accounts at Camborne, 1909"; "The St.
Columb Green-book," 1912; "The Padstow Hobby Horse,"
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries, 227
1913; " The Bodmin Gospels," 1913; Presidential Addresses,
igi2, 1913, and 1914; and Notes on Cornish Folk Lore,
1915.
To the Reports of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic
Society. — "Recent Archaeological Discoveries at Carn Brea,"
1895; " Glasney and its Associations," 1898; " Cassiterides
and Ictis: Where were they?" 1909.
Other works : History of Cornwall for my Children, A
History of Cornwall for Schools (1908), The History of Glasney
Collegiate Church, Cornwall (1903), and The Cornish Drama.
Mr. Peter in 1906 thoroughly revised and re-wrote Collinses
History of Cornwall.
His explorations of the prehistoric fortress of Carn Brea
were important. He explored the hut circles and found
neolithic implements, and it was the first time that any-
thing really important had been done at Carn Brea. This
work won for him the Henwood gold medal. Another work
of great interest was that on the lost Piran Church, to the
preservation of which he devoted himself. The St. Columb
Green-book was a subject in which he revelled. To the
Cornwall Polytechnic Society his best contribution is that
in regard to Glasney, about the Collegiate Church of which
he wrote a fine history. Another work of note is that on
the Cornish drama. In 1914 Mr. Peter was elected a Fellow
of the Society of Antiquaries.
Mr. Peter never took any part in party politics. At one
time he held a commission in the old Volunteer force, and
his sense of duty impelled him to again accept a commission
in the recently-formed Cornwall Volunteer Regt., which, how-
ever, he had to resign on account of ill-health. He acted as
joint secretary in 1892, on the occasion of the visit to
Redruth of the Royal Cornwall Show, and afterwards on
the formation of Redruth Exhibition Society became its
first treasurer.
Mr, Peter was buried in Treleigh Churchyard.
We are indebted to the editor of the West Briton and
Cornwall Advertiser for the loan of the block of the excellent
portrait which illustrates this notice and for many of the
details concerning Mr. Peter's most exemplary and useful
life. Eds.
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193. The Silverton Mummers. — I shall be glad to
hear of any recent traces of mumming in Devon. Mrs.
Ewing, in the volume entitled The Peace Egg (S.P.C.K.,
no date), published a Mumming Play. She states (page 54),
" The following Christmas Mumming Play is compiled from
five versions — ' The Peace Egg,' ' The Wassail Cup,'
' Alexander the Great,' ' A Mock Play,' and ' The Silverton
Mummers' Play, Devon,' which has been lent to me in
manuscript." The version recorded below I took down (in
1900) from the lips of an old man, aged about 70, by name
Denner, who was then an inmate in the Tiverton Union
Workhouse. Strange to say, at the same time two other
members of the troupe were inmates, one named Hopkins
and another whose name I cannot recall. I shall never
forget the real histrionic power, and even fury, that this
third old man put into his part as he tried to instruct the
boys whom I had brought into the workhouse, to play this
ageless play to the last of the genuine mummers. Denner
was cast for Dame Dolly. It is striking that mumming
was not meant for boys but was a matter for men. The
Silverton men played regularly in Exeter. The only hint
of costume is that Father Christmas was dressed in an
old long coat tied round with a hay band. In lieu of Room,
a Dorset version has Rumour full of tongues, reminiscent of
the Prologue in Shakespeare's Henry V.
The succession of strata in the epic is to me truly
historic and therefore pathetic. We are now too self-
conscious to put in Haig and Jellicoe as some unknown
hands put in Wolfe, Wellington and Nelson. I believe
that Mr. Barker, Rector of Silverton, belonged, as did some
of Mrs. Ewing's family, to the Nelson Circle. It is possible
that we owe to him the powerful touch recorded by
Mrs. Ewing but not by my old friends : — Doctor : •' Britons !
our Nelson is dead ! " A voice replies from without : " But
he is not with the dead but in the arms of the living God."
Such a shudder went through our land when the news of
the drowning of Kitchener came.
The latest additions are easily the most corrupt, but
" I tells them as they was told to me," and I have refrained
from emendations, however tempting. If Silverton had been
England in 1915, no Compulsory Service Act would have
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been necessary. Conscripts are unknown in such parishes ;
the battered doggerel of the Silverton Mummers breathes
that clean patriotism with which we trust to save the
world from tyranny.
FRAGMENTS OF THE SILVERTON MUMMING PLAY
(Taken down by the Rev. E. S. Chalk from the mouth of one Denner,
and two other inmates of the Tiverton Union Workhouse, 1900).
Enter Father Christmas.
Here comes I, old Father Christmas,
Welcome, or welcome not,
I hope old Father Christmas
Will never be forgot.
Isn't this a great age
For an old man like me ?
Four score and three [or probably the current year],
My head so big,
My body so small.
My knees and legs so weak.
So down I fall.
And if you don't believe the words I say.
Enter in my son Room and prepare the way.
[Room is probably in origin the Old Fool whose name has been
lost and another supplied from his opening words].
Room. Room, a room prepare his way,
No Turks nor dragons shall tarry this way,
For S. George he is a valiant man.
And I his armour bearer am.
I cut down all his enemies
If they were only here.
If you don't believe the words I say,
Enter in King of Egypt and boldly clear the way.
Enter King of Egypt.
K. of E. Here am I, King of Egypt,
So grand and boldly does appear.
And with the tribes of British boys
I'm come to show you here.
Whilst heroes bold and Britons stand
We neither fear nor care,
For S. George he is my only son and heir.
And if you don't believe the words I say,
Enter in S. George, and act thy manly part,
And let the jovial company see
That thou hast a lion's heart.
Enter S. George.
S. George. Here am I, S. George and S. George,
Who did from England spring.
Some of my most victorious works
I'm now just going to begin.
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First, into a dungeon I was put,
Second, into a closet I was locked,
And from thence under a table of hard rock of stone,
Where I made my long sighs
And most grevious (sic) moan.
How many men strove me to subdue,
Till I ran through the fiery dragon, and him I slew.
And as I was a riding by another gate.
Another fiery dragon I chanced to meet,
By the flop of his wing'
He almost lay me for dead.
What a wonderful man I should have been
If I'd have rose and cut off that monster's head !
Since that I have been brought to know and understand
That there is some proud Turk to circulate his feet in English
Fight him ? Yes. If I am sure to get slain, [land.
For not one drop of blood will I circulate him in vain.
Enter Turk.
Hold, hold, S. George ! Look on I that Turkish knight,
From Turkish land I'm come to fight :
Fight thee, S. George, that man of courage bold,
And if thy blood be hot, soon will I make it cold.
S. George. To whom, to whom, to whom, proud Turk, to whom the
challenge give ?
Turk. To thee, to thee, thou English dog, no longer shalt thou live.
Pull out thy sword and fight,
Pull out thy purse and pay.
For satisfaction will I have before I go away.
S. Geerge.l Don't talk so loud of satisfaction,
No money will I pay,
But I will fight with thee
Manfully before I go away,
[They fight.]
Manfully, manfully, is my intent,
Cursed be the man that does prevent.
[They fight. S. George is wounded.'}
Turk. Ah, S. George, I have thee there
And made thee heel (?).
S. George. Soon will I arise and make thee feel.
[They fight. The Turk is stabbed.]
Turk. Down on my bended knees I fall,
One pardon from thee I crave,
If thou spare my life
I'll be thy Turkish slave.
S.George. Arise, thou Turkish dog,
Go to thy country, and tell
What brave and British champions
There does in England dwell,
For ten thousand men such as thee I'd fight.
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Turk.
D.D.
F.C.
D.D.
F.C.
D.D.
F.C.
D.D.
F.C.
F.C.
Doctor.
F. C.
Doctor.
F.C.
Doctor.
For to maintain the crown of old England aright,
So arise, and go thy way.
Behold, ye see me arise and go my way,
God bless Saint George and all his royal ships at sea.
[S. George calls the guard. The guard marches
round singing twice. ]
See that proud Turk a marching up and down.
With his hands into his pockets and his head a hanging down,
His pocket's Uned with blue and his heart is never true,
Take him off into the castle, for this will never do.
Enter Dame Dolly with a besom : loquitur.
Here comes I, old dame Dorothy,
With my great authority.
Lumps of pudding and pieces of beef,
My mother gave me when I was a thief.
Lumps of pudding and pieces of bread,
My mother gave me when I was a maid.
Look up my back and see how its swoUed,
Look up in the tower and hear my bells.
[Shakes bells in cap.}
Enter FATHER CHRISTMAS : loquitur.
Hello, old Bet 1
Hello, Jan !
Where you been to, then ?
That's my business.
Where 's that drippence I give thee last night ?
I spent it
And where 's my share ?
I eat my half first and yours was so good that I eat yours
[They fight. D. D. is killed.] [afterwards.
O Doctor, Doctor ! Is there a Doctor can be found.
Can cure my wife of this deep and deadly wound ?
Enter Doctor : loquitur.
0 yes, O yes, there is a Doctor, and a Doctor can be found.
What 's your name ?
Doctor Ben.
What 's thy fee ?
Ten pounds and a crown.
What can you cure ?
Hitch, pitch, pox, palsy and the gout,
All pains within and all pains without.
And if the very old Nick's in a man,
1 can fetch him out (again),
[Goes to Dame Dolly.]
Here, old jig, take a drop of my flip flop,
And run it up thy very tip top.
And rise and fight again.
[D. D. gets up. D. D. and F. C. scuffle and
run out. Doctor exit solus]
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Enter Black Man : loquitur.
Here am I, Tippo : India is my right.
What power of fame shall I render over this British fight?
Thirty thousand troops have I under my command,
Thirteen thousand of them soon shall before me stand.
Then soon will I let Cornwallis know
That India's ills shall overflow.
Enter Cornwallis : loquitur.
For why, Tippo, for why dost thou freely boast.
Or make mention of that mighty force.
For that by Zeboys (i.e. Sepoys) thou wast defeated.
Tippo. Me defeated ? Me defeated ? Not me.
[They fight without damage]
Enter a French Marine : loquitur.
Here am I, that French marine, sent here by bold Bonaparte
To see if I can't find out some of these here English dogs,
and stab them through the heart.
There is Sir Charles Jenkins and Lord Collingwood,
Their great renowns and fame,
But the greatest of these Admirals, Lord Nelson is his name.
Enter Nelson : loquitur.
Here am I, Nelson bold : neither by French or Spanish dogs
Will ever I be controlled.
'Twas at the Battle of the Nile,
That here we sailed in glorious style :
Nine ships we sunk, twelve ran away,
And the men came in at last. [Cetera desunt}.
Enter Lord Collingwood : loquitur.
'Twas at the battle I firmly stood ;
'Twas at the battle of Trafalgar bay
Where Lord Nelson did receive his scar.
He sent for me.
All for to take his sword, and see
That none of these great Britons
Never shall get slain
As long as Rule Britannia rules the main.
Rule Britannia rules the sea,
Britons never, never, never shall be slain.
He was took down from the deck so high,
Which here he lay until he die.
Till at last come up Lord Collingwood
With all his fighting men,
'Twas in the hour of victory
When Nelson did intend.
Mourn, old England, mourn,
Mourn and complain,
Our gallant hero, Nelson, is slain.
Edwin S. Chalk.
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194. The Carew-Mohun Chimneypiece. — In a summer-
house in the grounds of Bickleigh Rectory, near Tiverton,
there is a very interesting piece of stone carving, a chimney-
piece, which the Rector, the Rev. W. G. Carew, tells me
was brought there from Bickleigh Court, the old home of
the Carew family.
At each end is a lion supporting an heraldic shield ; the
dexter shield bears the arms of Carew : Or three lions passant
sable ; the sinister shield again bears the Carew arms im-
paling Mohun : Or a cross engrailed sable. The lions on this
shield have been much rubbed and are indistinct, so they
do not show well in the illustration.
Sir Henry Carew, who died in 1681, married Dorothy,
daughter of Sir Henry Mohun, of Boconnoc, Cornwall. It
may fairly be assumed that the chimneypiece was carved
during their married life to commemorate the achievements
of a former member of the family. Sir Peter Carew.
The carvings appear to refer to the " Prayer Book "
rebeUion of 1549, when the inhabitants of certain villages
in the neighbourhood of Exeter refused to accept the reformed
Prayer Book with the services in English, and demanded
that the church services should remain as in the reign of
Henry VIII, That king had indeed decreed that no alter-
ation was to be made until his son Edward VI. was of age ;
he was at this time only eleven, so the insurgents were to
some extent justified.
News of the disturbance reached the Royal Council, and
Sir Peter Carew and his uncle, Sir Gawen Carew, were
sent to Devon to suppress it, peaceably if possible ; if not,
by forcible means.
Hooker, who was an eye-witness of the events he records
in his History of Exeter, gives a minute description of the
whole affair, which is found in the first section of the history,
edited by Professor Harte, and published by the Devon and
Cornwall Record Society.
The main incidents of the rebellion are very well known,
and there is no need to recapitulate them here. Strange to
say, the episodes which appear on the stone are all minor
matters. All the thrilling events recorded by Hooker, the
burning of the barns at Crediton, the fighting at Clyst St.
Mary, and various desperate affrays and doughty deeds at
234 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
the walls of Exeter have no record in the stone. Except
for the halberds carried by some guards there is not a
weapon of any sort ; not a single piece of ordnance, no
military operation of any kind. There is indeed a hint at
the battle of the windmill ; at the extreme left-hand top
corner is a tiny windmill on a round hill.
Beyond the hill is a village ; in the foreground is a row
of four gable-ends indicating a street : behind is a church
with a steeple flanked by two trees and more houses. The
village is cut oflF definitely on the right by a soaring tower
of masonry formed of large blocks of dressed stone. It is
so much larger in scale than the other buildings in the
composition that it seems to be meant for a partition.
In spite of the propinquity of the windmill the village
is possibly Clyst St. Mary. This quiet little place was
one of the chief centres of the " Commocion," as the
rebellion was euphemistically called.
Beyond the tower is the fortified city of Exeter. It is
surrounded by a battlemented wall pierced by two gate
houses. Inside the first is a building which suggests the
Guildhall. It has a porch with doorway between two wings
with gabled roofs ; each of these has two windows, one
above the other. Behind is a large church, probably the
Cathedral, flanked by two towers, one circular and one
square, each with a spire ; behind the building is another
spire which may perhaps belong to it. Just beyond is a
building with a spire which seems to be the Chapter-house,
while to the right is another church with two towers and
spires which might be St. Mary Major's. Between the
church and the city wall is a street with houses each side.
•Of course, relatively to the Guildhall, the positions are wrong.
Working still to the right we have another substantial
gate house in the wall. This gives access to a round hill
with a castle on the top, which we may call Rougemont.
On the hill are some vague forms which, though somewhat
damaged, are evidently sheep. There is another building
with a spire just inside the gate ; this would be the chapel.
Altogether there are eight spires in this section of the city,
besides two in the village by the windmill.
It may be objected that spires were by no means general
in Exeter, and that their presence would rather point to a
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 235
Flemish city. This would not follow from the introduction
•of the spires. If the carving were the work of a Fleming,
as seems probable from its style, he would no doubt have
worked from a verbal or written description, and he would
<:onsider that every church or public building must have at
least one spire. This circumstance would also account for
the incorrect position of some of the buildings.
The wall is continued for a short distance beyond the
gatehouse ; behind it is yet another church with a very tall
spire, St. Sidwell's, no doubt, and an important looking
dwelling-house with three large trees in a row in front. Out-
side the city walls are five more trees, the foliage varied
and elaborately worked.
On the left, directly beyond the shield, is a dramatic
scene, a man is being stoned. He is prone on the ground,
quite at the lower edge of the stone — an old man with
beard and moustache, wearing a long furred robe and a
double pleated ruff round his neck. More than half the
depth of the stone is occupied by the stone-throwing mob ;
the second from the top is a woman who is taking missiles —
turnips perhaps — from her basket. About the middle of the
group a bearded man on his knees is interceding for the
victim.
Hooker tells us that Mr. Walter Raleigh met an old
woman with her beads in her hand going to church at St.
Mary Clyst ; he reprimanded her for using the beads, saying
that religion was reformed, and she would be punished if
she did not obey the law. The woman in great indignation
roused the other parishioners so that they fell on Mr. Raleigh
on the road to Topsham, and might have killed him had
he not been rescued by some mariners of Exmouth.
I think this is the episode represented here, though the
encounter with the woman is omitted. She is no doubt the
very active missile-thrower with the basket. Beyond the
extended feet of Mr. Raleigh is a small headless figure,
much damaged, carrying what may be an oar ; no doubt
he represents the rescuing party of mariners from Exmouth.
Just at this point is a diagonal patch about twelve inches
long and from half to three inches wide where the stone
has been rubbed smooth, so some of the details are not easy
to decipher.
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Outside the gate leading to the Castle is a beggar man
sitting on the ground between two trees ; he has two
wooden legs. Beside him is a crutch, and a satchel hangs
round his neck. A man dressed in something of a Puritan
style is dropping alms into the cap held in the beggar's
outstretched hand. I may mention here that the costumes
do not indicate the date of the events portrayed. It was
usual in the seventeenth century to represent all charac-
ters more or less in the dress of the day. There is nothing
about the beggar in Hooker's account.
Beyond the tree on the beggar's left is a pack-mule
toiling up the hill to the Castle gate with a load of wood,
driven by a boy who comes behind with an uplifted stick
in his hand. This may indicate the attempt of the rebels
to burn the city gates.
Below the beggar and his benefactor is a gabled house,
very delicately and elaborately carved, with a doorway at
the side cut in the thickness of the stone. The house has
two chimneys ; on one side is a penthouse, on the other a
square sign, hanging in the usual way from a horizontal
cross-piece. It is probably an inn.
At the centre of the whole composition is a battlemented
building with two large square windows ; the seam where
two parts of the stone are joined comes vertically between
these windows. The design is not continuous across the
seam, and some figures are incomplete ; a strip of the stone
is missing here. In the left-hand window a man is standing ;
the legs below the knees are out of sight, but what is shown
of the figure fills the whole depth of the window. The man
has both arms extended, he is delivering an harangue. Out-
side the window to the right of the orator is a man designed
on a larger scale than the others ; he has a moustache and
beard and wears a full robe with a fur tippet over and a
round cap. He also is making a speech ; he gesticulates
with his right hand, his left rests on the helmet of a soldier
with a halberd. I take this to represent Sir Peter Carew.
Behind him appear the head and shoulders of another man
with moustache and pointed beard, holding his right hand
extended.
In front, moving towards the bottom of the stone, there
is a procession of citizens in furred cloaks, two and two.
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each couple hand in hand. This may represent a conference
of justices and gentlemen summoned by Sir Peter Carew
in Exeter, or it may show the determined attitude of the
Mayor and citizens, who refused to join the rebels though
urged to do so.
In the group below the orator in the window is a country
man in smock frock and round brimmed hat ; he is an old
man with long hair and a beard, and is holding up his hands
in admiration of the orator above him. Facing him is
another old man in furred gown and ruff; his hand rests on
the shoulder of a boy. The stone is broken here, and the
boy's feet are gone. Below the halberdier is the upper part
of the figure of a lady with curled hair and trimmed mantle ;
the right hand is raised. The rest of the figure is broken
away.
The other windows in the battlemented building is sub-
divided into two openings with round topped arches. A
man sits at each ; both are bearded, with furred robes. One
has both hands extended over the window-sill, the other rests
one hand on the head of a woman with a long flowing veil.
Behind her are two soldiers with halberds, one with his cap
in his left hand. A third halberd is visible, but the halberdier
himself is not in view. The lady's hands are raised in
appeal, but her attitude is one of great determination. There
are three other figures in front of her, they seem to be only
spectators. Below the halberdiers, an injured woman is
being succoured by another. Hooker records an incident
which may explain this group.
A man named Barnerd DuffiU took on himself to attack
the rebels without the orders or sanction of the officers in
command. This was a very dangerous proceeding, and as
the arguments of his fellows were of no avail, the Mayor
sent for him and explained that he was under orders and
must not act on his own initiative. Duffill still insisted
that he should do the same thing again, so the Mayor had
no alternative but to send him to prison. Duffill had a
daughter, Frances, who seems to have inherited her father's
determined character. On hearing her father was in prison
she came in fury to the Mayor to demand his release ; this
being denied she not only used violent and abusive language
to the Mayor, but struck him in the face. Her foolish
238 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
behaviour annoyed the citizens very much, and the result
might have been serious, but the Mayor excused it. The
affair was hushed up and everybody was pacified, including
the maiden. Perhaps it is in token thereof that in th&
carving the Mayor puts his hand on her head.
To the right is the Castle approached by an imposing
flight of steps ; it has two towers and two wings, all battle-
mented, and the towers have conical roofs above the
battlements. The courtyard is paved with large flag stones
laid diamond wise, and there is a grove of trees on the
spectator's right. In front of the Castle the lady appears
again, still in the custody of the three halberdiers, who,
perhaps, are escorting her to her home. A man in a tunic,
whose head has perished, addresses the halberdiers. All the
faces in this group are obliterated.
One would think that there were many more incidents
which might be commemorated on the stone, but the work
was evidently designed by a pacifist who thought all
differences might be adjusted by conferences and speeches
without the aid of lethal weapons. (Stones as hurled at
Mr. Raleigh do not of course come into that category).
Having no more peaceful scenes to record, the sculptor, by
an unexpected transition, fills the remaining space with a
group representing Susannah and the elders. This subject
was extremely popular in the seventeenth century. It is
the conventional well-known representation. The scene is
a garden with trees, and in the middle a fountain with water
playing. In front of the fountain is Susannah, lightly draped
and with flowing hair, sitting on a stone bench with her
feet in a large bath. The elders stand one on each side of
Susannah ; both have an intriguing expression, which is
very skilfully rendered in work of so small a scale. One
pulls his beard in uncertainty.
Below the bath is a double bounding line, perhaps in-
tended to show that the group is distinct from the main
subject. Below this again is a dog curled up asleep.
The lower edge of the chimneypiece may have formed
a wide ogee curve, for there is a large gap, roughly tri-
angular in shape, where the point of the ogee would have
been. Some of the edge moulding remains fairly perfect on
the left side ; on the right it is more damaged. Some of
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the stone is also gone from the top edge, especially at the
right-hand corner. It will be seen that the lion is only just
in, while at the other end there is a village and a windmill
above the lion's head. The stone on the left measures
thirty-one inches in depth, on the right twenty-six, so the
top edge is on a decided slant. The length of the carving
is ninety-one inches.
It is not knov/n how it got so damaged, nor through
what vicissitudes it has passed. The summer-house, where
it now is, seems to have been built on purpose to take it,
as it fills the entire width of the back wall, and it may
reasonably be assumed it is safe for the future.
My thanks are due to the Rector of Bickleigh and to
Mrs. Carew, who most cordially gave me every facility,
and allowed me to stay as iong as I liked taking the
photograph and studying the design. In the preparation of
the paper I have been helped by Mrs. Lega-Weekes, Miss
Beatrix Cresswell and Mr. Tapley-Soper, and I gratefully
thank them all. Kate M. Clarke.
195. Early Churchwardens' Account, St. Mary
Major (IX., p. 220, par. 187.) — In my translation of the
entry " It iiij lb. de parschcandel empt' p matutin' dicend'
in festivis dieb3 tempe yemali vj''- " I have interpreted
" parschcandel " by the familiar term " Paschal candle," but
I have become uneasy in mind on the point since, consider-
ing the low price of this candle — i^d. per lb. as compared
with v'^- per lb, for the wax bought in readiness for Easter.
This and the practical purpose for which it was destined
("for saying Mattins on feast-days in winter time") suggests
that its material was tallow, which was permitted for
lighting the church, though only wax might be used on the
altar or for ceremonial purposes.
In Dr. Cox's book, Churchivardens' Accounts (pp. 167-8),
are the analogous items : . . . "for Candyll for burning
in the lanteryn on Wynter mornings in the body of the
Churche x"^- " . . . " for a ii off talow candelle one
crystemas day in the mornyng ij'*"
Perhaps, then, the word in question was intended for
Parish candle. Can any reader supply instances of such a
term ? E. Lega-Weekes.
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196. Payment to the Vicar of Pinhoe. — In the year
looi a large force of Danes landed at Exmouth and besieged
Exeter, but were driven off. The Fyrd collected under
their Reeves Eadsige and Kola and were defeated in a bloody
battle near Pinhoe. The funeral mound of the brave departed
still remains.
The Vicar of Pinhoe receives each ist October i6s.,
minus 2s. lod. for "auditing" from the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners.
Tradition runs that this pension was conferred on him
because on the day of battle he galloped into Exeter and
brought out arrows for the Fyrd ; another tradition is that
the pension was settled on him to pray for the souls of
the slain.
The Valor Ecclesiasticus, vol. ii., p. 313, says the Prior
of St. Nicholas Priory, Exeter, paid the pension. It has
been paid by the Woods and Forest Department.
By what authority was this pension voted ? When was
the first payment made ? Has it been fairly regularly paid
since its institution ? Can any reader quote other similar
cases? XeA^Jch\,^.\^^ M^Vi) ^' ^^''^^'
197. Surname Prideaux (IX., p. 208, par. 176). — In
reply to the query by Curiosus II., the proper way to pro-
nounce the name Prideaux is " Pridux," the accent being
on the first syllable and the vowel short ; but those members
of the clan who have from time to time abandoned their
west country domicile, not apparently being specially deficient
in common sense, have preferred answering to the ' Prido '
or ' Preedo ' of those who addressed them, to insisting on
accuracy in the matter, and have indeed mostly ended by
calling themselves erroneously.
The person from whom the family trace, one Paganus,
who lived near Fowey before the Conquest, wrote his
surname (or, if he couldn't write, had it written) * Pridias,'
which is, according to a pedigree open before me, a name
" evidently of Celtic origin."
It has been stated, on what should be good authority,
that there is in France a family of Prideaux which is in no
way connected with the Prideaux folk of Devon and Cornwall.
H. Maxwell Prideaux.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 241
198. Charles Rewallin, Virginal Maker of
Exeter. — A notable addition to the musical history of
Exeter has recently been made as the result of some in-
quiries instituted by Mr. St. George Gray, the Curator of
the Castle Museum at Taunton. In a communication
concerning the removal to Taunton Castle of a small
collection bequeathed by Mr. Arthur Hull, of Newhayes, to
form the nucleus of a Museum at Chard, Mr. St. George
Gray mentions a " rare Virginal, of a type which can be
matched by a somewhat less well-preserved specimen in the
Victoria and Albert Museum at South Kensington. . . .
Their specimen is identical in form to ours, and is distinctly
dated 1655. Ours is 1675." The specimen now at Taunton
fortunately bears an inscription which has led to the
identification of its maker, together with some details of his
life. The inscription reads : " Charles Rewallin made it
Xon : 75." A reference to the Cathedral Register of Births,
Marriages and Burials, published a few years ago by the
Devon and Cornwall Record Society, yielded the fol-
lowing : — " Sept. 23rd, 1657, Charles Rewalling and Hester
Gosticke, of Laurance (i.e., parish of St. Lawrence, Exeter),
were married in the Cathedral." The date of Rewallin's
birth has not yet been ascertained, but it is known that his
death occurred about 1697 from the fact that in that year
letters of administration of his goods were granted. To the
administration is attached the following inventory of his
goods, which we think is sufficiently interesting to reproduce : —
Inventory, 5 July, 1697.
A trew and perfect inventory of the goods of Charles
Rewallin of the parish of Saint Sidwells in the County of
Exon virginall maker being surveyed and appraysed by
those whose names are here under written as followeth.
£ s. d.
Imprimis his wearing apparell - - - 15 o
Item one chest in the lower fore chamber -150
It. Fyve joynt stools in the same room - - 30
It. fower chares in the same chamber - - 60
It. Three boxes and part of a tabell board - 6 3
It. on [e] jack, on spit, on pare and irons and on
pare of dogs - - - -70
It. two pare of tongs, on firepan and a pot brooke i 6
242 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
It. one pare of billis [bellows] and a turner of
grinding stone - - - -10
It. five stilling irons and on corn bag and on form 2 6
It. In the higher fore chamber two brass pots and
one iron pot - - - - 10 o
It. three brass Kittles on skillet and on pestell and
Mortar - - - - -80
It. two pewter dishes & on flagon & three candle-
sticks .....
It. on dissen [dozen] of tranchers & a salt box -
It. in the Easter high chamber on tabell board
and on form ....
It. on bed and bedsted ....
It. Three trunks and two boxes
It. in the high back chamber on Argon [sic organ]
& on spinet and on littel cabinet -
It. In the loft on half hed bedsted & two boxes
It fower score Argon pipes & Lumber in the house
It. for old iron .....
It. for goods not seen and unpraysed
It. for an organ at the Globe
The whole sum is 40 15 3
Martha Rewallin.
Richard Venner.
Christopher Sandford.
From this interesting inventory we may conclude that
Rewallin was an actual builder of organs. The item "for
an organ at the Globe " requires elucidating. The " Globe "
was perhaps the Globe Inn, which still stands in the
Cathedral Close. It has been suggested that as the resi-
dences of the Vicars Choral of the Cathedral were close
by that the Globe may have been used for practice purposes.
It is doubtful, however, if the Globe in the Cathedral Close
is of sufficient antiquity to sustain this conjecture. Dymond,
in his Old Inns and Taverns of Exeter, is unable to date it
back further than the first quarter of the eighteenth century.
He contents himself with the statement that " the Globe in
St. Mary's Yard existed as a Tavern at least as early as
1726." Miss Lega-Weekes, in Some Studies in the Topography
of the Cathedral Close, Exeter, p. 180-1, refers to several early
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deeds as existing in the archives of the Dean and Chapter
and amongst the deeds of St. Petrock's Church concerning
dweUing houses and gardens on the site of the present day
Globe Hotel, but no mention is made of the existence of a
Tavern thereon ; had there been one, it is more than likely
that it would have been referred to by its sign. There
does not, however, appear to be any record, either ancient
or modern, of another Globe Tavern in Exeter, so that after
all perhaps Rewallin's will provides us with the earKest
reference to the present day Globe Hotel.
Those readers who are particularly interested in early
musical instruments of the keyboard type are referred to
Mr. St. George Gray's article in the Connoisseur, vol. xlvi.,
p. 80, October, 1916, from which the accompanying illustra-
tion has been reproduced by the courtesy of the editor.
The name of a still earlier Exeter organ maker has
recently been recovered from the Exeter Receiver's Rolls
preserved at the Guildhall. A transcript of these Rolls has
been made, at the instance of the City Council, by Mr. Elijah
Chick and deposited at the City Library where they can be
more conveniently consulted. In the Roll for 1530, 21-22
Hen. VHI. (transcript vol. xvii., p. 251) is the following
entry:-
" It. payed to Joim-_JYenscott the organ maker for £^ v r\
makyng of the orgonesse in the joressens of Master Martyn p' ^'
v" xviij^ iij*^- "
Can any reader explain the meaning of the word
"joressens " ?
We also learn from the Flying Post, of x\pril 10, 1867,
that at that date there was established at St. James' Street,
in Exeter, an organ maker of the name of Dicker, for oa
that date a fire broke out on his premises which destroyed
the contents of his shops and organ room comprising nine
organs. . . four were completed and five in course of
erection. One of them was the largest in the West of
England, being twice the size of that in the Cathedral, and
was intended for, a gentleman resident near Kingsbridge.
OJ^ ^AY . p.<g3.92 . H. Tapley-Soper.
199. The First Devonshire Newspaper. — For many
years Dr. Brushfield's valuable article on " Andrew Brice
244 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
and the Early Exeter Newspaper Press " (Trans Devon.
Assoc, XX., 163-214), remained unchallenged as an accurate
and complete account of the origin of newspapers in Devon-
shire. According to this the first paper was The Exeter
Mercury: or Weekly Intelligence of Neivs, dated September 24th,
1714, and printed by Philip Bishop at his printing office
in St. Peter's Churchyard. The following year appeared a
bi-weekly, The Protestant Mercury: or The Exeter Post-Boy
with News Foreign and Domestick, the first number of which
was probably dated September 27th, 171 5, though Dr. Brush-
field, reckoning it as a weekly from No. IV., October 7th,
gives the original date as September i6th. This was printed
by Jos. Bliss at his new printing-house, near the London
Inn, without East-Gate, and, as is evident from a comparison
of their title-pages (facsimiles of which are given by Dr.
Brushfield), was modelled on the Exeter Mercury, and was
started in this form in opposition to it. But it now appears
that Bliss had previously started a paper in 1707, for
Mr. J. B. WiUiams has unearthed in the British Museum
a solitary copy of this paper, the only one of the series
known to exist. His discovery was first announced in The
Times Printing Number, 191 2, and he has since contributed
two notes on the subject to Notes and Queries (12 S., ii.,
81, 216). The paper is preserved in the Burney collection,
Vol. 153 B, and its title is as follows: —
"/o5. Bliss's Exeter Post-Boy, containing an impartial
collection of the most material news, both foreign and
domestick. Friday, May the 4th, 1711. No. 211."
And the imprint at the end is : —
" Exon: Printed by Joseph Bliss, at the Exchange Coffee
House, in St. Peter's Church-Yard."
This paper, therefore, commenced in April, 1707, but
Mr. Williams supposes that another printer must have
preceded Bliss, for Dr. Tanner, writing to Browne Willis
in 1706, says, "I am told they print also a weekly paper
at Exeter." At any rate, the only earlier provincial papers
known are Burges's Norwich Post, 1701 ; Bonny's Bristol
Post-Boy, 1702 ; and Crossgrove's Gazette (Norwich), 1706.
The Exeter Post-Boy is a quaint little sheet — two pages
only, about foolscap size. At the top corners are two rough
woodcuts, as in the later papers, the left-hand one being a
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 245
full-length portrait of Queen Anne, and the right-hand one
the arms of Exeter, with the motto " Semper Fidelis." The
first page contains " The Congratulatory Speech of William
Bromley, Esq., Speaker of the Honourable House of
Commons, to the Right Honourable Robert Harley, Esq.,
Chancellor of Her Majesty's Exchequer, upon his attending
the Service of the House of Commons, on Thursday, the
26th of April, 171 1 ; together with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer's Answer." This referred to his " Escape and
Recovery from the barbarous and villanous Attempt made
upon him by Sieur De Guiscard, a French Papist." Then
follow some items of news, mostly foreign, received " by
last Night's Post from London," and some other items
relating to home aflfairs, dated '' London, April 28." The
only entries of local interest are : —
" Falmouth, April 30. Yesterday the Litchfield and York
put in here with contrary Winds, bringing two Ships from
India, but last from Ireland, under their Convoy.
"Plymouth, May i. YestQxddiy soWed ih.e Experiment and
Swiftsure to join Sir Havendon Walker, Rear- Admiral of the
White, who is this evening off this Harbour, with about
40 Ships, standing to the Westward."
The paper ends with a few local advertisements, which
are of sufficient interest to be given in full : —
" On Tuesday next, being the 8th Day of this Instant
]\Iay, at Abraham Hole's Coflfee-House, in St. Peter's
Church-Yard, will be sold by way of Auction a Catalogue
of Choice Books, in Divinity, History and Law ; beginning
at 5 a-Clock in the Afternoon. "
" Dr. Richard Harness, Chyrurgeon, Oculist and ^Manual
Operator, in above 30 years' Travels, may now constantly
be spoken with at his Chambers in the several Towns
following : Every Tuesday at the Lamb in Ottery St.
Mary ; Every Wednesday at the 3 Tuns in Newton-Abbot :
Every Saturday at the Swan in Crediton ; And every Mon-
day, Thursday and Friday at the 3 Tuns by the Guild-Hall
in Exon.
^^ His Pills are sold only by Mrs. Elizabeth May
at Mr. Phil. Bishop's, Bookseller, over-against the Guild-
Hall."
246 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
" Mr. Tho. Boucher hath a choice Loading of Rock-
Salt, which he will now sell Reasonably on Board the Vessel
at Topsham."
" Charles English still liveth at the Cork-Knife against
the London-Inn, without Eastgate, Exon, where all Gentle-
men, &c., may be truly and faithfully served with Superfine
Corks, or those of a lower Price, to content. Likewise, if
any want Corks for Fishery, he is ready to supply their
wants."
" At a Celler in Gaudy's Lane, is excellent good sound
Red Port Wine to be sold at Five Shillings a Gallon ;
Attendance is daily given at Mr. James Binford's House in
the said Lane."
" This is to give Notice, That on Wednesday, the 9th
Day of May, will be held a Survey for sale of several
Tenements, Courtlages and Gardens, and to each Tenement
a Garden large or small, with a Well of very good Water
(lately digg'dj to attend on the said Premises ; in Fee-
Simple, and to be sold in Parts, or the Whole ; being the
Lands of Nicholas Kennycott, and lying in the Parish of
St. David's, without North-gate, Exon, on the Left Hand
going up the Hill, and in the several Possessions of Mr.
Nath. Ford (at whose House the Survey will be held,
between One and Two in the Afternoon), Calvin Kenshole,
Stephen Worthy, Eliz. Minifie, Christopher Dives, Will-
Busverges, John Barns, Peter Humphrys, John Drew, Charity
Short, and of the said Nicholas Kennycott. You may in-
quire farther of Mr. John Carwithen, Town-Clerk, in St.
Peter's Church-Yard, Exon, before or at the Time, where
you may be Advised of the Title, or else as your Council
may advise. The best Profferer shall have a Reasonable
Price, and civilly treated withal."
" There is to be sold the Fee-simple of a Fair New
Dwelling-House, in Rocks-lane, adjoyning to the House of
Mr. John Wills, Mercer, in the City of Exon, which consists
of a Celler, 3 Ground-Rooms, and 6 Chambers. Inquire
of the Reverend Mr. Nath. Seaman, Minister of Kings-
bridge, or of Mrs. Michal Warren, near the Pallace-gate in
Exon."
" There is a very good Charriot, Callash and Harness to
be sold by Thomas Bishop ; and at the same House is
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 247
made and sold Wheels, Carriages and all other Materials
belonging to a Coach, by Thomas Holms, near Pallace-Gate,
Exon." R. Pearse Chope.
200. Parish Accounts. — In bygone times little public
business appears to have been transacted without drinking.
I append extracts from the Churchwardens' Parish Accounts
of Countisbury showing what an indispensable adjunct beer
used to be : —
s. d.
1703. P"^- when I fox was killed for beer - 2 o
P'^- more for beer when do. - - 2 6
P**- for beare when 2 foxes killed - -70
P"^- when the ware a fox hunting for beare
another time . . - - 6
1718. P"^- for beare to drinke y^ King= helth on
Coronation Day - - -10
P"^- for ale y'' fift of Nov. - - 2 6
P**- for ale for the foxhunters - -20
1 72 1. P*^- for beer for y^ Dean Ruler - - 6
1732. P'^- for ale when y' bell was carried up - 4 6
Also beer when y" Dean Ruler visited and beer when
the plh went to view the tower.
Ale for vestry meetings appears down to 1861, after
which £1 is allowed yearly for expenses of the Lady Day
Vestry till 1884. These expenses were for a dinner at the
Blue Ball at which the Curate presided, supported by the
Churchwardens and all ratepayers.
In 1681 beer was paid for ' when the bell founder talk
with the psh'^- for casting the bell,' and beer when the bell
was cast and beer when the bell was ' taken out of the
peet.'
How diflferent were our ancestors, and how times have
changed ! Fred Day.
201. Yew Trees in Devon and Cornwall. — During
a recent visit by the Teign Naturalists' Field Club to
Dartington, attention was drawn to the yew tree which
still stands to the west of the site once occupied by the
parish church, removed, with the exception of the tower,
in 1880.
248 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
The suggestion was made that the yew tree has probably
outlasted the sacred edifice in spite of the many occasions
on which the original Norman church, probably built by
William de Falaise in the nth century, has been re-built
and restored.
The yew tree, which stands westward of the ruined
tower, was found to measure 25 feet in circumference at
about 3 feet from the ground, but as this included small
lateral outgrowth the circumference of the bole or com-
bination of boles is probably about 23 feet.
This dimension indicates considerable age, and the query
was advanced that if the planting of yew trees in churchyards
was not, at the period of the Conquest, a Norman custom,
is it not possible that the ancient yew trees, to be found
in the precincts of early churches all over our country,
were planted by the Anglo-Saxon settlers, or even date from
pre-Christian days ? Dartington was given to the Saxon lady
Beornwyn in 833, in exchange for her share of her father's
estate in West Aimer, Dorsetshire, and is perhaps the earliest
mention in history of a manor in Devonshire.
Little information seems to have been collected concerning
the yew trees of Devon. In 1888, a correspondent enquired
in Notes and Gleanings the age of a yew tree then standing
at the side of the tower of Heavitree Church, apparently
without result.
Mr. John Lowe in his work on the Yew Trees of Great
Britain and Ireland (Macmillan, 1897), gives a list of all
trees having a girth of 10 feet and upwards. Under Cornwall
none appears. Under Devon only three, of which the follow-
ing particulars are given : —
Girth at Girth at Length tt„- . f Diameter i?^.„,,i,o
ground. 3 feet. of bole. Height. ^^ un^brage. Remarks.
Manaton ... 13 ... 40 70 1892 (LL.)
Stoke Gabriel 15 5 6.10 40 83 i836(London)
St. John in the A compound
Wilderness '" -'^ "* tree.
From the omission of the trees at Dartington and Mamhead
and the above mentioned specimen at Heavitree, this list
is obviously incomplete. Charles VIL, of France [1422-1461] ,
ordered yew trees to be planted in all the churchyards of
Normandy for providing wood for cross-bows. A similar
edict for a general planting of these trees was issued in this
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 249
country by Richard III. in 1483, but it was not until the
reign of Elizabeth that any special orders were given to
plant yew trees in churchyards and cemeteries.
G. A. Hansard {The Book of Archery, 1841) for very good
reasons, scouts the idea that the trees were ever placed in
churchyards to provide wood for bow-staves and arrows.
From the early Welsh laws it may be gathered that specimens
of the yew were at a very early date dedicated to various
saints, and the heaviest fine of " one pound " was inflicted
for their protection as against i5d. for a non-consecrated
yew. (Wotton, Leges WallicB. See also J. Lowe, Yew Trees,
op. cit. pp. 1 08- 1 10).
Mr. John Lowe's work furnishes much other interesting and
useful information, but as in the 12th century there were
approximately 400 sacred edifices in Devon alone, mostly
founded by the Normans, if it were not a Norman custom
to mark a cemetery by the presence of a yew tree, any general
custom of thus planting the tree would not have been
permitted or come into vogue until the 13th century, in
which case no existing specimen can be more than 600-700
years old. This, science utterly refutes, and the subject of
these ancient trees deserves more attention.
In case of destruction by storm or decay of any of these
trees, a most careful examination of the site should be
made by some expert as to what depth the ground has
been disturbed, and special search made for signs of any
early interment, for the tree may have protected for centuries
evidence of the greatest interest to antiquaries and historians.
I cannot find a single instance, even in Mr. Lowe's book,
of such an opportunity being taken advantage of or suggestion
thereto made.
Readers of D. S- C. N. & Q. are requested to furnish the
Editors with particulars of ancient yew trees which are
known to have existed in the past or are still growing in
the West, showing the exact position in relation to the
church and giving any information that may be gleaned
from churchwardens' accounts or from other parish or
private records. i^U^O^. p.93. Hugh R. Watkin.
202. "Honiton Lace-Making" (IX., p. 128, par. 109.) —
The writer of this book was Miss Mary Elizabeth Whitmore
250 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
Jones, formerly of Chastleton House, Co. Oxon., who was
born on Feb. nth, 1824 (not in Devon). It is understood
that she stayed in Devon with her parents from 1845 to
1849, first at Exeter and then at Dawlish, and it seems
probable that it was during this period that she learned to
make Honiton lace. Miss Whitmore Jones died on Aug.
23rd, 1915, at Painswick, Co. Glos., and was buried at
Chastleton. Her writings included the following : — " The
A B C of Patience " ; " Games of Patience for One or More
Players" (with portrait and facsimile of her autograph);
"The Grinding Mills" (a novel, 1903); "The Gunpowder
Plot and Life of Robert Catesby, also an account of
Chastleton House," 1909 (with the author's family history) ;
" Honiton Lace-making " [1873]; " The Honiton Lace Book,
being the second and enlarged edition of Honiton Lace-
making " [1875]; "New Games of Patience," 191 1 ; "The
Siege of Derry " (pamp.), 1913; " Time and Tide " (a novel,
1907). R.B.M.
203. Mercer Family (IX., p. 164, par. 136). — I have
to thank Sir Oswyn A. R. Murray, K.C.B., for the two
following Wills : —
" Richard Mercer, Mr. of Artes, Fellow of Exon Colledge,
Oxford : born Ottery St. Mary and now living in Chard :
31 May 1631 : Have already given and bequeathed a great
part of my goods : To my nieces *Elizabeth and Anstice
Wallrand : To my brother and sister Mercer and their son
after them, I mean my nephew William Mercer : To my
brother Mercer my best gown, etc., also my gold ring ' being
a seal of our arms,' and after him to his son William : To
my wife Katherine an annuity of ;^20, which my brother
Mercer must pay ; also an annuity of £8 which Mr. Edmund
Prideaux must pay, also the benefit of an annuity of ;^i2
which Robert Harris of Wighton with George Steevens of
Wighton is bound in several bonds to pay : Residue to my
wife Katherine whom I make my executrix : Overseers —
my cousin Mr. Nicholas Mercer of Exon and my Kinsman
Mr. Samuel Isaacke gent. (Witnesses) — Chri : Senior,
Anstis Walrond, Henry Turner.
* Ottery St. Mary Registers : — 1610, Mrs. Margaret, wife of Humphry
Walrond, Esq., buiied 19 Oct.
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 251
A brief remembrance of such things as I have disposed
in my lifetime, to be given at my death. To my sisters
* Joan Marker and f Katherine Sampson. To my niece
Mary Bussell los., if she restore ' the silver whishull with
the currell which do belong to John and Francis Gibbons.'
To my niece | Katherine Hitchcocke dwelling in Colyton
and to her children : To my nephew I Nicholas Salter of
Colyton and his children : To my nephew Richard Marker
and his children : To my niece Margaret Mercer of Exeter,
the daughter of my cousin Nicholas Mercer : To my godson
Richard Isaacke : To my godson § Richard Pratt : To my
nephew and godson IT Thomas Sampson : To my niece
il Margaret Eveleigh : To my brother Thomas Mercer and
to my cousin William Mercer and my sister Marker.
Proved 9 Feby., 163I, by Katherine Mercer (P.C.C. 26,
Audley).
Katherine Mercer of Chard, widow : 28 March 1639: To
my niece Elizabeth wife of Samuel Izacke, gent, whom I
make my executrix, desiring her to dispose some part amongst
the children of her husband : (Witnesses) Margaret Walrond,
Katheryn Yelverton, Christian Burges.
Proved, 29 June 1639, by Elizabeth wife of Samuel
Izacke, gen: (P.C.C. 115, Harvey.") A. J. P. S.
* She married Henry Marker, gent., of Woodford, Ottery St. Mary ;
his Will, dated 18 Jany., 1621 ; proved i June, 1622. (P.C.C. 57, Sackville).
Ottery St. Mary Reg. : — 1640, Mrs. Johane Marker, widow, buried
4 March.
Her Will, dated 19 Feb., 1640 ; proved 17 May, 1641. (P.C.C, 65,
Evelyn).
t Probably wife of John Sampson (1572-1639), of Colyton, gent.
J Colyton Registers : — 1618, John Hitchcock and Katherine Salter
married i May. 1614, Nicholas Salter, of Colyton towne, and Edith Birde
married 3 Oct. She was daughter of Robart Birde. They had a son
Nicholas, bapt. 18 Aug., 1615.
§ Henry Marker, in his Will, names his daughter " Frances Marker "
and his widow Joan, in hers, names " Frances Pratt."
^ Thomas Sampson, son of John Sampson, was bapt. at Colyton
30 April, 1609, He married at Shute, 1639, Anne, widow of Ralph
Huchenson, Vicar of Colyton, and daughter of William Walrond, of
Bovey.
II Ottery St. Mary Reg. :— 1604, Margaret, daughter of Henrie Marker,
gent., bapt. 6 May.
Joan Marker, in her Will, names her daughter " Margaret Eveleigh."
252 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
204. West Country Watch and Clock Makers (IX.,
p. 204, par. 172, et ante). — I have recently seen a clock in
Glasgow with the inscription " Peter Oyens, Plymouth Dock/'
on the dial. The clock is enclosed in a mahogany case
and has a brass face painted white, and semi-circular at the
top. It has the hour and minute hands, a small dial for the
seconds and also records the day of the month. The semi-
circular top has a representation of a bearded figure of Time
with scythe and a figure of a skeleton following behind.
In the upper part on one side is the seated figure of a woman
holding a peacock, and on the other a woman holding a vessel
from which is issuing smoke. In the lower corner on one side
is a woman seated with a lion, and in the other a woman with
fish. The figures are apparently hand painted and are
beautifully coloured. J. W.
205. West Country Clock and Watchmakers (IX.,
p. 204, par. 172, et ante). — In the above article Mr. H. Tapley-
Soper writes as follows : — " There is a very tall and handsome
clock at Powderham Castle reputed to be by Stumbel of
Totnes. Pasted inside the door of the case is a slip of paper
on which is printed ' Mr. Stumble's Directions to the Person
who has the care of this clock' etc. No other specimen
by this man has been recorded," etc. etc.
I propose to ask you to record another which was an
heirloom belonging to my father, and is now the property
of my nephew. The clock is a very tall and handsome
one, and besides recording the time, it gives the age of the
moon and the day of the month. There are two sets of
chimes, either of which can be set to chime every three hours.
Inside the case is pasted a paper very neatly written in copy
hand " Rules to be observed in keeping this clock," followed
by very minute instructions. The name " William Stumbels
Totnes" (not Stumbel) is plainly engraved on the brass dial,
but there is no date.
In Vol. IV. D. N. &- Q., page 82, the Hon. and Rev. H. H.
Courtenay wrote regarding the Powderham clock asking if
you could inform him when Stumbels lived, but I have never
seen any answer given.
My father valued his clock very highly and always said
it was very old ; it is still a most excellent timekeeper. My
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 253
father's great great grandmother was Elizabeth Courtenay,
daughter of Francis Courtenay who died in 1699. She
married Arthur Champernowne, of Dartington, and died 171 2.
If both clocks came from the same source this may give a
clue to the date.^^-^ (^t^vi D^^g-^ J- G. Hicks.
206. St. Michael's Church, Honiton : Memorial
Inscription Destroyed in the Fire, March 26, igii. —
On the floor of the north aisle of the chancel : —
Here lieth the body of
John Blagdon of this
Town gent, who died
the 23 day of July
1694 aged 59 years.
Here lieth the body of
Margaret the daughter of John
Blagdon Esq. and Margaret his wife
and granddaughter
of the above named John
Blagdon Gent, who died the
8 day of May 1720 aged
23 years.
Large marble tablet N.E. corner of the same ; —
Here lye the Bodies of
John Blagdon Esq., buried 10 Dec. 1714, aged 46.
Margaret his wife buried 20 Apr. 1733, aged 64.
Margaret their daughter buried 13 May 1720 aged 23.
John their son buried 18 Aug. 1727 aged 29.
Sarah his wife buried 5 Oct. 1724 aged 21.
Rachel daughter of H. Blagdon Esq. buried 25 March 1733
aged 6 weeks.
Elizabeth daugther of H. Blagdon Esq. buried i April 1733
aged 12 months.
Elizabeth Maunder his sister buried 30 Aug. 1736.
The said Henry Blagdon buried 25 Jan. 1737 aged 34.
Rachel his wife buried Nov"^- 15 1743 aged 39.
Marriage Licence, Exeter — 1696, April 4, John Blagdon, of
Honiton, & Margaret Crossing, of Buckerell, sp.
Margaret Crossing, baptized at Gittisham, 12 May, i658,
was the daughter of Hugh Crossing and his wife Margaret,
daughter of William^^,t^fpComly^ ^^^^^^A.^.P.S.
207. Church Bands (IX., p. 200, par. 168, et ante). —
These old bands are not a matter of very remote history.
In Countisbury the churchwardens charged for repairs to
the bass viol so recently as 1886.
254 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
At Hawkridge in 1870 the Rev. Mr. Jekyll at the com-
mencement of Revel Service when the anthem ' The King
of Glory ' was to be rendered, was shocked at hearing the
band leader, who had been imbibing, exclaim — not sotto
voce, " Come, boys, 'ere's passun, us'll show the hellers
who the King of Glory is."
When I was a schoolboy I was proud of playing a village
organ in Essex, turned by a handle, its capacity being six
tunes. 2;^ V<r{^X-p47> Fred Day.
208. Robert Legge, of Grete Totton, Devon (IX.,
p. 202, par. i6g). — In the Early Chancery Proceedings,
Bundle 136, No. 51, is the following entry : —
" Wm. Gyles, M.A., serving priest, keeping a Grammar
School, and a Song School in Totnes, and :
Agnes, executrix and late the wife of Robt. Legge,
feofee to uses.
Presentation to the Chapel of St. Edmund the King,
Totnes, under the will of Sir Piers Eggecomb, Knt."
Agnes Legge is evidently the widow of Robert Legge,
who gave the money for the bell. In the law note the Feast
of Transubstantiation of St. Thomas should read " Transla-
tion of St. Thomas."
The Chapel of St. Edmund the King was the Chapel of
St. Edmund King and Martyr, and St. Edward the Con-
fessor, and was on Totnes old bridge. Edward Windeatt.
209. CoPLESTON Family (IX., p. 217, par. 182.) — Mr.
Davidson in his Manuscript Notes on East Devon (now in
the Exeter City Library) gives the following : —
"John Copleston, of Crewkerne, gent, (probably a
younger son of Philip or Ralph Copleston, of Warleigh),
had a son John Copleston, Provost of King's Coll., Cam-
bridge, and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge, 1682. M.I.
King's Coll. Chapel. Christoper Monk, Duke of Albemarle,
called him ' kinsman.'
" Also another son, William Copleston, from whom
Copleston of Offwell."
From Foster's Alumni Oxonienses : —
" John Copleston, son of William Copleston, of Exeter,
gent., matriculated at Merton Coll. 29 Nov., 1682, aged 18;
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 255
perhaps Rector of Tedburn St. Mary, Devon, 1688 ; Canon
of Exeter, 1728, until his death in 1731."
John Copleston, Rector of Tedburn St. Mary, 12 March,
1681-2 ; buried in his chancel 21 June, 1731. He was
succeeded 23 Sep., 1731, by his son Edward Copleston,
born 6 June, 1699, matriculated at Exeter Coll., Oxford,
18 Mar,, 1718-19, aged 18; B.A., 13 Oct., 1722; died
19 July, 1767. He married Anne,* daughter of John Brad-
ford, Vicar of Newton St. Cyres (1703-1728). His son
(amongst other issue) John Bradford Copleston, born at
Tedburn St. Mary, 8 July, 1749; died at St. Thomas,
Exeter, 8 April, 1831, and buried at Offwell, M.I. ; Rector
of Offwell 28 Sep., 1773, which he resigned i Aug., 1800,
for the Vicarage of St. Thomas the Apostle, Exeter ;
Prebendary of Exeter. He married (Marr. Lie. of Exeter,
23 Oct., 1773), Margaret, daughter of Nicholas Gay, Vicar
of Newton St. Cyres; she was baptized at Newton St. Cyres
6 Aug., 1747, and died 3 Jan., 1839, aged 92, M.I., Offwell.
His first son —
Edward Copleston, born 2 Feb., 1776, died 14 Oct., 1849.
M.I., Offwell. Matriculated at Corpus Christi Coll., Oxford,
29 May, 1791; B.A., 1795; M.A., 1795; B.D., 1808; D.D.,
1815 ; Rector of Offwell, 17 Dec, 1800; resigned 1804.
Dean of Chester, Dean of St. Paul's, and Bishop of Landaff.
His second son —
John Gains Copleston, born 5 March,i778, died 18 July,
1841 ; M.I. Offwell. Matriculated at Pembroke Coll., Oxford,
* From Newton St. Cyres Register :— ( S^ *^^ ^t^ >^ R- ^i )
1649. Nov. 29, Mr. Robert Bradford and Jane Bremridge married.
1678. — Sept. 19, Mr. John Bradford, Vicar of this parish, and Mrs.
Anne Cheeke, of the parish of St. Sidwell's in Exon, gentleman,
married by Licence.
1679. John, son of John Bradford, Vicar, born 9 Nov., bapt. Nov. 23.
1708. Jan. 29, Mr. John Bradford, Vicar, and Mrs. Ann Hall, of Ash-
ton, married.
1709. Ann, dau. of John Bradford, Vicar, bapt. Jan. 24.
1732. Apr. 12, Mr. Edward Copleston, Rector of Tedburn St. Mary>
and Mrs. Ann Bradford married.
From St. SidwelVs Registers : —
1657. March 17, Mr. Edward Cheeke and Mrs. Ann Walldron married.
1658. Dec. 16, Ann, dau. of Mr Edward Cheeke, borne.
1660. Sept. 23, Ann, dau. of Mr, Roger Cheeke, bapt.
Marr. Lie., Exeter. 1761. Oct. 30, John Vye, of Upton Pyne, clerk,
and Ann Copleston, of Tedburn St. Mary, spr.
256 Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries.
II May, 1795; Corpus Christi Coll., B.A., 1799; M.A,,
1802. Rector of Offwell, 9 April, 1804. He married Harriet,
daughter of James and Amy Townsend, of Offwell ; she died
"Ua V»A/))- ^D 10 Jan., 1835, aged 61 ; M.I., Offwell. A. J. P. Skinner.
210. Dog Whippers (IX., p. 203, par. 171, et ante). —
The sums paid to Dog Whippers at Holcombe Rogus have
no reference to the hounds not long since kept by the late
Mr. Rayer. They ceased to be paid for more than a century
before Holcombe Court was purchased by him from the
Bluett family. Fred Day.
211. Corrigenda et Addenda. — /
V. 7, p. 227, line 27, for clans read '/claus," i.e. clavis.
p. 229, line 2, for clams read "^lauis," i.e. clavis.
V. 8, p. 245, Index. Under Drake, Wilfred, add " On
Heraldic Discovery at S. l^Ticholas Priory, 49."
V. 9, p. 3, line 24, for 1772 read '/ 1722."
p. 5, line 12, for Howand r^ad "Howard."
p. 89, line 27, for VIII. redd "VII."
p. 'i^, Hne, 23, for (D. &,' C, N. S- Q., Vol. VIIL,
part iii., p. 100) read " Some Studies in the Topo-
graphy of the Cathedral Close, Exeter," by Ethel
Lega-Weekes, p. 100.
p. 114, line 22, for "in/the stairs of No. i, Southern-
hay," read " in removing debris from the stair of
a ruinous tower, adjoining the city wall, in the
Bishop's Palace grounds."
p. 98, line 27, for Gallington read " Cotlington."
p. 140, line II, for Duus read " Duns."
p. 140, line 26, fof Voragine read " Voraigne."
p. 140, line 43, for Holcor read " Holcot."
p. 173, line II, /for 1414 read "1494."
p. 173, line 24/ for 1311 read "1131."
p. 203, line 15, for transubstantiation read " translation."
p. 222, line 17, for (? swearing) against read
(? " sweariiig against.")
p. 223, line 4, delete parentheses.
p. 223, footnote, for clothes read "cloth."
Note to Binder. — A schedule of tenements in Preston
Street by Miss Lega-Weekes, which will be found opposite
p. 16 in Vol. IX., should be removed when binding and
inserted opposite p. 238 in Vol. VIIL
Qil'H^
^
INDEX.
A[?dams], H. W., 120
A., J. S., on Chapel of Tor
Royal, 182 ; Crest of Strode,
178 ; West Country Clock and
Watch Makers, 30
A , L (Plate IV), 148
A., M., on Devon Church Plate,
91 ; Rev. Wm. Hy, Thornton,
65
ABC of Patience, 250
Abbotsham Church, 118
Adams, Abra., 52 ; Mary, 52
Adeston, 123
Afferton, John, 54; Catherine, 54
Aire. See Ayer
Albemarle, Duke of. See Monk,
Christopher
Alexander, J. J., on Devon or
Devonshire, 17
Alexander, T. W., 219
Alford, Marg-aret, 200 ; Melchiz-
edeck, 199, 200 ; Richard, 200 ;
Samuel, 20 ; William, 199
Allison, M., 134, 135
Alpchurch, 32
Alson Rew, Field Name, 30
Alured, Archdeacon of Cornwall,
184
Alwingfton Church, Coffin-shaped
Tomb at, 102
Ameye, Edward, 169
Annery, 83, 87, 150
Antill, John, 52
Apples. See Tom Putt Apples
Arden, G., 66
Armelphi (Champernown), Wil-
liam de, 28
Arnold, Andrew, 25 ; Dean of
St. Buryan, 19
Arrows and Yew Trees, 249
Arscott, Family of, 122; Hercules
150 ; Katherine, 83, 87 ; Tris-
tram, 83, 87
Arundel), Sir Thomas, i
Arwenack, 188
Ash, (Plate I), 145, 147
Ashburton Church Band, 149
Ashpring-ton Church, 3
Ashton, Manor, 104, 105 ; Parish
Church, loi, 151 ; Parliamen-
tary Troops at, 58
Assarts, 81
Assizes, Devon, held at Barn-
staple, 32
Astley, H. D. O'W., 219
Athelhampton, 112
Attwood, J. S., on Booksellers
and Printers in Devon and
Cornwall in the 17th and i8th
Centuries, 129
Auco, Hugh, 184
Auneford, 128
Austen, Samuell, 11
Autree, Awtree, Awtry. See
Ottery St. Mary
Aveton GifFard, 127
Avetree. See Heavitree.
Avon, 181 ; River, 127
Avon-tree, 181
Awtree. See Ottery St. Mary
Ayer Family, 37, 93 ; Marshall, 8
Aysheton, Rycharde, 71
B., on County Assizes held at
Barnstaple, 32
Bachiler Family, 220
Bacon, Francis, 79
Bagh, Thomas, 20
Bailey, Nehemiah, 124
Bailiff, Election of, 219; John, 156
Baker, Charles, 42, 95; J., 120;
John, 156, 169 ; Judith, 42, 95 ;
Mary, 39, 95 ; Nicholas, 89 ;
Thomazin, 42.
Baldwin, R., 135
Balfron, John, 44, et seq. ; Julian,
44, et seq.
Balle, Baldwin, 221
Baltazar, Grace, 37
Bampfield, Agnes, 86 ; Thomas,
86
Barham, Dr., 226
Barker, Mr., 228
Bamfield, Richard, 190
Barniell(Barnikel), F., 136; Rich-
ardj 136
Barns, John, 246
Barnstaple : Athenaeum, 69 ;
Devon Assizes held at, 32 ;
Grammar School, 69 ; Parish
Church and St. Mary Maudlin's
Priory, 61 ; Parish Registry,
69 ; School Board, 69 ; Tobacco
Pipes, 113
258
Index.
Baron, John, 170; Wm., 58
Barter, Will,, 170
Barton, 64 ; William, 92
Bassett, Anne, 188 ; Edward,
188; Jos. Davie, 208; Robert,
188; William, 188
Bastin, Mr., 125
Bateson (Baitson), Richard, 93,
94 ; Dorothy, 93
Bath, Earl of, 31
Bathiirst, William, 9
Batten, Wm. Maxwell, on Deans
of St. Buryan, 19
Battishill, Elizabeth, 7 ; Mary,
7 ; William, 7
Bayl}' (Bayley, Baylie), Family
and Arms of, 90, 143 ; John,
89, 157; Lettice, 89; Robert,
II
Beale, Ann, 10 ; Anstice, 10 ;
George, 10
Beard, L. H., 219
Beare, Jno. , 185
Bearrucscir, 17
Beaumont, 126
Beavis, William, of Farringdon,
91
Bedford, 193 ; Family, 172, 207 ;
House, Exeter, 48
Beer, Payment for, from Parish
Accounts, 247
Beer Cand, Field Name, 29
Believer Bridge, 1S2
Bellew Family, 122 ; Monument
in Braunton Church, 54 ; Rich-
ard, 54 ; William, 54
Bellman and Town Crier,Election
of, 219
Bellomont, Mabel, 84 ; Robert
de, 84
Bennett, , 1S5
Bentinck, Charles Aldenburgh,
62; H. E., 26
Beornwyn, the Saxon Lady, 248
Bere, Charles, 169
Bere-Ferrers, 118
Bere Stone, Early Use of in
Exeter Cathedral, 102
Berkeley, Emily Frances, 225 ;
Rowland, 225
Bernard, 183, 184
Berry, Oscar, on De la Tour
Family, 203
Berry (Berye), Sir Nathaniel
Heme, 179 ; R., 170 ; Simon,
170
Berry Family, 203
Berry Pomeroy, 1 1 1
Berrynarbor (Byry), 61
Berye. See Berry
Beryman, Nycholas, 71
Betham Family and Arms, 143
Bethune, A. W., 120
Eefty Galley, 16
Bew Beer, Field Name, 29
Bewes, William, 13
" Bible and Quadrant," 132
Bickford, Jos., 170
Bickle, R. H., 204
Bickleigh Court, Carew-Mohun
Chimneypiece from, 233
Bickleigh Rectory, Carew-Mohun
Chimneypiece in grounds of,
233
Bideford, 118
Bidgood, Humphry, 96 ; Mary,
96
Binford, James, 246
Birde, Edith, 251 ; Nicholas, 251;
Robert, 251
Birigg, 185 ; Road, 184
Bishop, Phil., 131, 245 ; Philip,
244 ; Thomas, 246
Bishop's Court, 164
Bishops Nympton, 171 ; Court
Rolls, 119
Blacklands, 22
Blagdon, Elizabeth, 253 ; Henry,
253 ; John 253 ; Margaret,
253; Rachael, 253 ; Sarah, 253
Blake, Malachi, 25
Blampyn, Nicholas, 10
Bliss, Joseph, 131, 244
Blownt, Michaell, 169
Bluett Family, 256
Bockland, 84
Boderell, 84
Bodleian Library, 195 ; MSS.
from Exeter Cathedral Church
Library in, 177
Bodmin, Deeds relating to, 193
Boileaux, Matthew, 19
Bokerel, 1S9, 217
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John,
Viscount, 15
Bolle, Baldwin, 222, 223
Bonner, Elizabeth, 56
Bonny's Bristol Post Boy, 244
Bonython, Alice, 188 ; Anne,
188; Hannibal, 187, 188 ; John
187 ; Richard, 188
Booksellers, Devon and Corn-
wall, 129
Boor, John, 19
Index.
259
Borda (Gorda), Edric, 184, 185,
216
Borrow, Eliziah, 157 ; Robert,
156, 157 ; Thomas, 157
Boscawen, Nicholas, 20
Bosonn, Richard, 223
Boucher, Thomas, 246
Bourne, 45
BovEY Tracy, 24, 64 ; the Coro-
nation of Q. Victoria, 2 ; Manor
of, 26 ; Manor Court Book of,
24 ; Park, 23 ; Royalists at, 58
Bow, 171
Bowden (Bowdon), Ann, 217 ;
Edward, 12 ; Thomas, 12
Bow-Staves and Yew Trees,
249
Bradford, 2, 204 ; Anne, 255 ;
Jane, 255 ; John, 255 ; Robert,
255
Bradley Manor, in
Bradridge, 77
Bradsel Family, 219
Branscombe, William, 25
Brasyvter, John, 221
Braund, John, 204
Braunton Church, 54, 117, 118
Bray, William, 135
Brayley, 204
Bremridge, Jane, 255
Brent, Wm., 207
Brice, Andrew, 243 ; Thomas,
130. 131
Bridg-ewater, Chartulary of the
Hospital of St. John, 64
Bridgman, H. E., 200
Bright, Allen (Plate IV), 148
Brimble, 59
Brixham, [5 ; Church, Coffin-
shaped tomb in, 102
Bristol Post Boy, 244
Briwere, William (Bp. ), 103
Brock Hill, 86
Broking, Frances, 12
Bromley, William, 245
Broughton, Hughe, 169
Brown (Browne), (Book-
seller) 135 ; alias Todde,
Agnes, 13
Brownynge, William, 61
Broxbourne Church, 89
Brudenell, Frances, 92 ; Hart-
hory, 92
Brushfield, Dr. [T. N.], 52
Brutton, Joseph, 43
Bryan, co. Lanes. , 3
Bucell, Richard, 184
Buck, Howard M., on Oliver
Mainwaring, 3 ; on Seal of the
Council for the Affairs of New
England in Plymouth, co.
Devon, 209
Buckingham, Walter Giffard,
Earl of, 81
Buckland Filleigh, 57
Bucknell, Jas., 204
Buller Tree, Field Name, 30
Bunkasland, Field Name, 29
Burges, Christian, 251
Burges' Norwich Post, 244
Burgum, (Plate I), 145 ;
(Plate H), 147
Burnell, Rebecca, 41, 42
Burton, 80, 84
Burrington, 32
Buse, John. 71
Bush, Robert (Plates IV, V and
VI), 148
Bushnell, Edward, 219
Bussell, Mary, 251 ; Michael, 12
Busverges, Will., 246
Butcher, J. (Plate III), 147 ;
James, 147 ; Samuel, 129
Buiheack, 187
Butter, Eliz. Melhuish, 205 ;
Nathaniel, 131 ; Thomas, 131
Bylle, Edward, 71
Byry. See Berrynarbor, 61
Bytton, Bp., 103
Bytton Church Tombs, 103
C.,A., on"Clyst"and"Week"
Place Names, 92 ; on Newton
Ferrers, 57 ; on Itinerary of
John Leland, 48
C, K. M., on Derivation of
Heavitree, 182
C, R. H., on The Dog Whipper,
175
Cadbury, 94
Caddy, John, 208
Cade, Henry, 70
Calchurch, 126
Calland, Field Name, 29
Calmady, Richard, 200
Can. See Cann
Candeler, John, 221
Cann (Can), Philip, 176 ; William,
126
Cannock, Edward, 83 ; Thomas,
209
Canonteign, Held by the Royal-
ists, 58
Capun, Gervase, 184
26o
Index.
Carclew, 187, 188
Cardinan, Isolda de, 29
Cardyiiam, 84
Carew Family, 233
Carew-Mohun Cliimneypiece, 233
Cam Brea Explorations, 227
Carpenter, Christian 52 ; Giles,
169 ; Samuel, 52
Carter, , 187
Carter Family, 125
Carwithien (Carvvithen), George,
40 ; John, 246
Cary, Ann, 8 ; Edward, 8 ;
George, 12
Catchere, Field Name, 29
Catcot (Catcott), (Plate I),
145 ; (Plate II), 147; George,
147
Cattrench, 179
Cater's Mill, 22
Calshayes, Field Name, 30
Cavell (Cavill), Nicholas, 88 ;
Mary, 190; William, 190
Chagford Church, 121
Chagford Church, Prowse Mem-
orials in, 81, 150
Chalk, Edwin S., on Devon Place
and Field Names, 29 ; on Sil-
verton Mummers, 228
Challis, John, 13
Chamberlain, , 194; Henr.,
204
Champernowne, Arthur, 253 ;
Family of, 28
Channon, Ann, 166 ; Elisha, 115;
Frances, 11 ; Nicholas, 9, 10,
II ; Family of, 199, 200
Chanter, , 187 ; F. R., 69
Chanter, J. F., on Combemartin
Silver, 128 ; on Exeter Cathe-
dral Librar}-, 139; on Exeter
Episcopal Registers, 61 ; on
Formation of the Parish of
Welcombe, 70 ; on Norman
Surnames, 144; on Parish of
Welcombe, 112
Chaplin, J. B., 30
Chard, Manor of, 10
Chard Museum, 241
Charles VII of France and Yew
Trees, 248
Chasty, Robert, 204 ; William,
204
Cheeke, Ann (Anne), 255 ; Ed-
ward, 255 ; Phineas, 166 ;
Roger, 166, 255 ; Sarah, 166
Cheriton Fitz Payne, 171
Cheston, E. C, on Bishops
Nympton Court Rolls, 119
Chiderleigh. Sec Chudleigh
Childe Family and Arms, 143
Chittlehampton, 171
Chope, R. Pearse, on Church
Bands, 124, 149, 200; on Crest
of Strode, 157; on Drake's
Epitaph, 190; on Dog Whipper,
176; on First Devonshire News-
spaper, 243 ; on Is there Coal
in Devonshire ? 99 ; on John
Mudge, Printer, 197; on West
Country Clock and Watch
Makers, 185
Chope Family, 126
Christones, or Three Christians,
Place Name, 29
Christow, 182 ; Parliamentary
Troops at, 58
Chudleigh (Chiderleigh, Chuder-
leigh), 104; Family and Arms
of, 105, 151
Church Bands, 124, 149, 161,201,
253
Church Plate. Devon Church
Plate, Sale of Flagon from
Sowton Church, 91
Church Sittings, 36, 159
Churches., 1 16. iV^ a/50 Sittings
in Churches
Churchill, Charles, 42 ; Family
of, 96
Churchstow, 182
Churchwarden's Accounts, St.
Mary Major, Exeter, 220
Clapp, Charles, 25 ; Frances,
25 ; Francis, 25 ; Francis
Hunt, 24 ; George Hunt, 25 ;
Mary, 24 ; Robert, 24
Clare, Richard Fitzgilbert de, 81
Clark, James, 157; Joan, 157;
John, 56 ; of Halberton, Arms
of, 98 ; Samuel, 157
Clarke, Kate M., on Carew-
Mohun Chimneypiece, 233 ;
on Derivation of the name
Heavitree, 127
Clifford of Chudleigh, Family of,
58
Clifton, 84
Clist St. Mary, Fighting at, 233 ;
See also Clyst
Clistone (Clistun), 44
Clock and Watchmakers, West
Country, 30, 64, 185, 204,
252
Index.
261
Arms
134;
45;
105,
59
Clutterbrooke, James, 166
Lovedy, 166 ; Sarah, 166
Clyst, 43, 44 ; Place Name, 20,
92. See also Clist St. Mary
Clyverdon, Henry, 186
Coaching- in Devon, 195
Coal in Devonshire, 99
Coates, 22
Cobb (Cobbe, Cobbie),
and Family of, 87, 122, i
Cobley, , 136; John,
Mary, 134
Cockey, W. (Plate I), 145, 147
Cockington, 105 ; Family and
Arms of, 151
Cocktree, 23 ; Family and Arms
123, 151
Cockworthy, Thomasine.
Family and Arms of,
151
Coddington Church, 159
Coffey, , 126
Coffin, , 133 ; Francis
Coffin-shaped Tombs, 102
Cogan, Elizabeth, 11 ; Phill., 11
Coish, Betty, 2 ; John, 2
Cokington. See Cockington
Colborne, Mabel, on the Vivians
of Cornwall, 190
Colchester, 8r
Colchurch. See Calchurch
Cole, C, F., on Simon Grendon,
49 ; Family and Arms of, 87,
122, 150
Colebrooke Church, Coffin-
shaped Tomb at, 102
Colehanger, 87
Colehays, 122
Coleridge, John, Wives of, 217
Coles, Richard, 218
Colloacombe, 87
CoUard, Elizabeth Charity, 96
Colle, John, 183
Collins, Arthur, 69 ; Digby, 57 ;
Thurstan, 225 ; William, 70 ;
Family of, 115
Collier, Thomas, 57
Collumpton. See Cullompton
Colyton, the Great House, 199 ;
Church, Pole Monument in, i
Comb, 84
Combemartin Silver Mines, 128
Commins (Comins), , 138 ;
J. (Plate 6), 148
Compton Family and Arms of,
105, 151
Comprigney, 189
Conant, Mary, 167 ; Richard,
167
Consecration. See Dedications
and Consecrations
Cooke, Dorothy, 37 ; Phillip, 37
Coombe-in-Teignhead Church,
117
Coplestone, Richard, 88
Coplestone, W. H., on "Notes
on the Churches of the Dean-
ery of Kenn," 217
Copplestone (Coplestone, Copp-
leston). Family, 150, 217, 254
Cork-knife, the, 246
Cornish, Arthur, 20
Cornwall, 18
Cornwall, Richard Earl of,
Patron of St. Buryan, 19
Coroner's Inquest. See
" Crowned"
Corporals, 223
Cortelega, Robert de, 184
Coryton, John, 225
Cosserat, , 194
Coswav, Richard, 224
CotleyYCotteleg), 184, 185
Cotley Castle, 216
Cottell (Cottle), John, 53 ; Mary,
6, 53 ; Thomas, 53 ; William,
53
Cottell, W. H., on Parish
Register Inaccuracies, 53
Cotteleg. See Coiley
Cotterell, Howard H., on West
Country Pewterers, 145
Cotton, Edward, 7 ; William,
Bp.,7
Couch, Ozias, 176
Coulson, Thomas Borlase, 20
Council of the Affairs of New
Engand in Plymouth, co.
Devon, 209
Countisbury, Blue Ball [Inn], the
247 ; Church Band, 253 ;
Parish Accounts, 247
"County," on West Country
Clock and Watch Makers, 30
Courtenay, Anne, 59 ; Elizabeth,
253 ; Francis, 253 ; Peter (Bp.),
117; Sir Peter, 59; Phillip,
no ; Family, 28
Cox, Samuel M., 220; Stephen
(Plate V), 148
Coxworthie, alias Browne,
Agnes, 13
Crago, Joseph, 206
Crappinge, Elizabeth, 214
262
Index.
Craven, Mr., 130
Crediton : 171; Burning of the
Barns at, 233; Church, no,
117; Coffin-shaped Tomb at,
102 ; Fire at, 134 ; Swan [Inn],
245
Creighton, Robert 20
Cresswell, Beatrix F., on Hol-
combe Burnell Church, 216 ;
on John Weston, 3 ; on
Lease of Land at Colompton,
44 ; on a Shillingford Story,
29 ; on Sittings in Churches,
1 16
Crewys. See Cruwys
Croc, 183
Crocker (Croker), , 11 ;
Elizabeth, 8
Crockford, John, 59
Cromwell in Devon, 59
Cross (Crosse), Diana, 115;
Richard, 223 ; Family and
Arms of, 97
Crosse, W. E. Crosse on St.
Petrock Stow Church Band,
161
Crosses: Cross of Edric Borda,
185 ; Holcombe Burnell
Preaching Cross, 216; Windy
Cross, 216
Crossgrove's Gazette, 244
Crossing, Hugh, 253 ; Margaret,
253
"Crowned," 159, 191, 224
Crownley, 27
Cruwys, Family and Arms of,
86, 122, 150
Cullompton (Collumpton), 44 ;
Church, Coffin-shaped Tomb
at, 102
Culver Hill, Field Name, 29
Cuming, Richard (Plate V), 148
Curiosusn,on "Crowned," 224;
on " Honiton Lace Making,'
128 ; on Oak Panel from King-
steignton Church, 144 ; on
Savery Memorials, 31 ; on Sur-
name Prideaux, 208
Curlers. 5^^ Wig Curlers, 115
Curtis, Wm., 206
Curzon, , 194
Cuttle, Thomas, 64
D., H. L. L., on Gennys of
Launceston, 76
Dafforn, Joseph (Plate V), 148
Daleighe, Roger, 169
Dalling, John, 156
Dalton, Robert, 13
Damerell Family, 121
Dapifer, Eudo, 81, 82
Darche, Wm.
[70
William, 161
Darke, John, 161
163
Dartington, 247
Dartmouth, 119, 180; Church,
159
Dartmoor Church, 182
Daubuz, Margaret, 27
Davey, George, 126
Davidson's MS., 31, 254
Davidstowe, 64
Davy, Elizabeth, 7 ; John, 7
Daw (Dawe,) , 138 ; Rich-
ard, 147
Day, Christopher, 204
Day, Fred, on Church Bands,
254 ; on Church Sittings, 36 ;
on Dog Whippers, 158 ; on
Norman Surnames, 93 ; on
North Molton Woollen Mer-
chants Marks, 89 ; on Parish
Accounts, 247 ; on Silver Gilt
Chalice in Ipplepen Church, 63
Dedications and Consecrations,
Church, 108, 173, 197
Deers Meadow, Field Name, 29
Defenas (Defnas, Defanascir), 17
De la Garde, , 194
De la Tour Family, 103
Denbury, Church, 3 ;
Band, 125
Denham, 84
Denner, , 228
Dennet, Richard, loi
Dennis (Dennys, Dynnys), An-
thony, 13; Elizabeth, 12;
Francis, 12 ; John, 12, 13,
169; Robert, 11 ; Sir Robert,
169 ; Family of, 126
Denny, Sir Arthur, 79 ; Sir
Edward, 76 ; John, 1 1 ;
garet, 76
Devon Sessions Rolls,
Devon Assizes held
staple, 32
Dcvo?iia, 128
Devo7itan Year Book, The, 191
Devonshire, Shire or County,
17 ; History, Jacobite rising,
13
Dicker, , 243
Dinham, 84 ; John, Lord, i ;
Katerin, i ; Lord, 84 ; Oliver
Church
Mar-
156
at Barn-
Index.
263
de, 29 ; Family and Arms of,
84, 121
Dipsham, 84
Dives, Christopher, 246
Docton, 186
Dog Tongs, 176; Whipper, 158,
175, 176, 203
Dolbeare, J., 145, 147
Donhead. See Launceston
Donugui, Manor of, 84
Downhead. See Launceston
Down-Umphraville, Manor Rolls
of, 61
Drake, Clement, 96; Elizabeth,
96 ; Elizabeth Charity, 96 ;
Sir Francis, 79, 120 ; Gilbert,
8; Joan, 8; John, 169; R.,
204; Thomas, 169; Will., 89;
William, 96 ; Epitaph, 190 ;
Family, 143 ; " Family and
Heirs of Sir Francis Drake,"
32
Drake, H. H., on Courtenay
and Champernown Families,
28
Drew (Drewe. Drue), A. Joseph,
130 ; Hannah, 49 ; Herman,
49; J-) 130; John, 246; Rich-
ard Rose, 49; Thomas, 11;
Edward, Sword of, 37
Dnnking at Parish Meetings,
247
Droitwich, 44, 93
Duck Family, 119
DuffiU, Barnerd, 237
Duke, Dorothy, 41 ; George, 38,
41, 42 ; Mary, 8, 38 ; Robert,
8, 38 ; Thomas, 38. See also
Duck Family
Dulling, John, 157
Dunhallow, 80
Dunhevet (Dunhevde, Dunhev-
ete.) See Launceston.
Dunscombe Street, 144
Dunsford, Martin, 30, 207
Dupuy, Adrian, 206
Durien, Julia, 69
Dyer, A., Stephens, on Gennys
of Launceston, 80
Dyer, Gilbert, 131
Dymond, Robert, loi
Dynant, 84
Dynnys. See Dennis
Dyrkyn, John, 223
Eadsige, Reeve, 240
•' Early Tours in Devon and
Cornwall," Corrections, 199
East Budleigh, 176 ; Church,
118
East Ogwell Church Band,
126
East Rowdens, 23
Eastervale, 85
Easterville Family, I2i
Easton in Chagford, 121
Ecc. Ant. Inq., on Mayora,
Elections held in Churches,
18 ; on Mayoral Elections in
West Country Churches, 43
Edgar and Co., 147 ; Edgar and
Son, 145 ; (Plate I), 147
Edgcumbe (Eggecumb,) Mar-
garet, 76 ; Peter (Pierce,
Piers), 76, 78, 254 ; Sir Richard,
78
Edward I, Patron of St. Buryan,
19
Edye, John, 47
Edye, L., on Commander Kenni-
cott, 16
Eedes, Mary, 96
Eggbuckland (Ekebokland), 115
Eggecumb. See Edgcumbe
Elford, Roger, 89 ; Family of,
123
Elford Lang, Field Name, 29
Eling, 220
Eliot (Elliot), Elizabeth, 135 ; Sir
John, 79 ; Margaret, 205 ;
Thomas, 41
Elizabeth, Queen, Arms of, 28,
63, 99 ; Queen and Yew Trees,
249
Ellacott Arms, 96
Ellis' Tenement, 22
England, Invasion of, 13
English, Charles, 246 ; Mar-
garet, 143 ; Richard, 143
Enham, 220
Enys, J. D., 226
Epetreu. See Harptree
Episcopal Registers. See'Exeter
Episcopal Registers
Ericke Family, 224
Escot (Escott), 199; John, 77
Ester, Maria, 135
Eston, Thomas, 220
Euerariz, Ralph de, 184
Eva, Richard, 185
Evans (Evens), , 185 ; Hum.,
147; (Plate H), 147
Eveleigh, Margaret, 251
Everton, John, 170
Ewing, Mrs., 228
264
Index.
Exeter : Ancient Building(Pres-
ton Street), 4, 49 ; Bedford
House, 48 ; Beseiged by the
Parliament, 58 ; Castle, 31 ;
Castle for the Canons of St.
Mary, 185 ; City Library :
MS. Collections towards a
list of Devonshire and Corn-
wall Incumbents in the, 193;
Coffee Houses : Abraham
Hole's, 244 ; Exchange, 244 ;
Moll's and Swale's, 100; Deeds
relating- to, 193 ; Depicted on
Carew-Mohun Chimneypiece,
233-9 J Diocesan Architectural
and Archasological Society,
113; Guildhall, the, 189;
Herald, 195; Heraldry: Ar-
morial Bearing at the Abbots
Lodge, 97 ; Hospitium de le
Egle, 215; Inns: Clarence
Hotel, 194 ; Globe, the, 216,
242; Topsham Inn, 115; 3
Tuns by the Guildhall, 245 ;
Mercury, or Weekly Iiitelligence
ofNe1VS,2^^\\ Mummersat,228;
Museum : Musical Instruments
in, 149 ; Watches by Devon-
shire Makers in, 206 ; News-
papers, 243-7 > Northgate St.,
171 ; Plague in, 32 ; Post Boy,
the, 244; Receiver, the last, 194;
Rocks-lane, 246 ; St. Nicholas
Priory, Payment to Vicar of
Pinhoe, 240 ; Streets : Lane or
Triangle leading from the
Cemetery of St. Peters to the
Church of St. Petroc, 221
Cathedral Church: 117,
160; DogWhipper, The, 176 ;
Episcopal Registers, 61 ;
Library, 176, 195 ; Liturgical
MS. discovered in, 33 ;
MSS. presented to the Bod-
leian Library, 139
Cathedral Church Close :
215; Bokerel, 189, 216;
Bounds of, 216 ; Cemetery,
216 ; " Egge" or " Eygge "
in, 188; 'Littel Style,' 188 ;
" Margeria, The," 189,
215
Churches : St. Kerrian, 3 ;
St. Martin's, 194 ; St. Mary
Major, Churchwarden's Ac-
counts, 220, 239 ; St. Pet-
rock's, 3, 189,
Exmouth, Landing of Danes at,
240
Experiment, 245
" Extractus," on "Crowned,"
159
Fairchild, William, 20
Fairfax in Devon, 59
Fairmile, 199
Falaise, William de, 248
Fallapit, 99
Farley, Sam., 134
Faryngdon, Chantry Lands and
Church House in, 21
Felon's Goods, 37
Fen Ottery, 37, 40, 42
Ferrers, 104 ; Alice, 85 ; Alice
de, 105 ; Sir Fulk, 85, 104,
105 ; Gilbert de, 105 ; John,
6 ; Nich., 6 ; Family and Arms
of, 85, 121, J50
Ferris, J. (Plate V), 148 ; J. and
Co., 148
Ferrour, Hugh, 221
Fewing's Tenement, 22
Field Names in Kentisbeare, 29
Fire Hooks at Truro, 73
Fireplaces in Church Pews, 118
Fires. See Hemyock
First Virginia Colony, 210
Fisherwicke, 89
Fishguard, Landing of French
at, 13
Fitch, 208
Fitz Payn, Robert, 184
Fitzhamon Family, 96
Five Weeches (Wey), 24
Fluxton, 11
Foalus, Florentia, 206
FoUet (Follett, Folyot), ,
204 ; Florence, 205 ; Lucy,
104 ; Richard, 104
Ford, 171 ; Elizabeth, 43 ; Nath.,
246
Fortescue Arms, 99
Foster, James, 204
Fothergill (Fothergills),
(Plate II), 147
Fox, Charles, 135; John, 204,206
France, Place Name, 29
Francis, John, on West Country
Clock and Watch Makers, 30
Frankes Tenement, 11
Franklin, Jenkin, 87
Frederick, Judith, 180; Sir John,
180
French, , 207
Index.
265
Frier, John, 176
Frost, Richard, 156
Frye, David, 186
Fulford, Francis, on Holcombe
Burnell Church, 183, 185 ; on
The Arms of Fulford, 62
Gaich, Commendum, 55
Gaines, 84
Gale, Christopher, 23, 24
Games of Patience for One or
More Players, 250
Gandy, Elizabeth, 167 ; Henry,
167, 16S; Jael, 167, 168; John,
168; Margaret, 168; Mary,
168; Sarah, 168; Simon, 167;
Symon, 168
Gandy's Lane, 246
Gard, Henry, 204 ; William, 204
Gatcomb, 85
Gaul, Gauls, (Plate H), 147
Gay, Margaret, 255 ; Nicholas,
255
Gaydon, J., 204
Gayer, John, 20
Gearis, Field Name, 29
Gelly, Grace, 10
Gendall, , 194
Gennys Family, 63, 76
George HI in Devon : a Shilling-
ford Story, 29, 90
Gerrard, Katherine, 3 ; Sir
Thomas, 3
Gewen, Thomas, 77
Gibbons, Francis, 251 ; John,
251 ; Thomas, 149
Gibbs, Abraham, 167 ; Ann, 171 ;
Elizabeth, 167 ; Isaac, 166,
171 ; Sarah, 166
Gidleigh (Gidley), Giles de, 82 ;
Family and Arms of, 82 , 85,
121.
Gidley, A. G., on The Dog
Whipper, 203
Giffard (Gifford), Stephen, 123 ;
Walter, Earl of Buckingham,
81 ; Family of, 121
Gilbard, Geffrey, 151 ; Jone, 151
Gilbert, , 188; C. S., 172;
Canon, 3 ; Earl of Eu, 81 ;
Family and Arms of, 97, 98,
105
Gilling, Joseph, 42
Gillon, Field Name, 29
Glistun, 44
Glubbe, Walter, 53
Glustone, 44
Glwys, 44
Gocelin, 184
Goddard, Agnes, 52 ; Anthony,
52 ; Avice, 52 ; Christian, 52 ;
Elizabeth, 52 ; James, 52 ;
Mary, 52 ; Phillip, 52 ; William,
52
Godfery (Godfry), Thomas, 41
Godman, John, 223 ; Nicholas,
223
Godolphin, Francis, 224; Gentle,
41 ; Katherin, 41 ; Mary, 41 ;
Wm., 41
Goff (Gogh). See Gough
Going, Richard (Plate V), 148
Goodall, John, 167 ; Mary, 167
Goodford, Field Name, 29
Goodman, John, 220 ; Nicholas,.
221
Goodyear, Betty, 2
Goove. See Gough.
Gooveshayes, 89
Gorda. See Borda
Gosticke, Hester, 241
Gothj'ell, John, 70
Gough (Goff, Gogh, Goove,
Gove), Arms and Family of,
88, 98, 123
Gould, , 204; G., 205;
George, 205
Gove. See Gough
Gover, Christopher, 169
Grace, Th., on Armorial Bear-
ings at " The Abbots Lodge,"
the Close, Exeter, 97
Gratian, 173, 197
Gratton, Field Name, 29
Great Ball, Field Name, 29
Great Totton, 202
Great Weather Lang, Field
Name, 29
Greenwich, 44
Gregory, Edward (Plate V),
148 ; Henry, 56
Grendon, Simon, 49
Grenville, Digory, 88 ; Sir
Roger, 88
Greystone Bridge, 48
Griffiths, Thomas, 130
Grigg, Emanuel, 132 ; William,
132
Grimaldi, Ernest C. , 224
Grinding Mills, The, 250
Grose, S. , on Robert Wenyngton,
64 ; on Payment to the Vicar
of Pinhoe, 240
Guddiford, Field Name, 29
Guiscard, Sieur de, 245
266
Index.
Gunpowder Plot and Life of
Robert Catesby, also an Account
of Chastleto?i House, 250
Gweek, 44
Gyles, Wm., 254
H., W. S. B., on Chapel at Tor
Royal, 183 ; on Rev. Thomas
Bedford, 172; on Thos. Bed-
ford and his Descendants,
207
Haccombe Church, 102 ; Coffin-
shaped Tomb in, 102
Hafn, 92
Hagedott, Ann, 7 ; Peter, 7
Haldup (Haldub), Eudo Dapifer,
81 ; Richard, alias Turstin, 81
Hale, John de, 19
Hale and Sons (Plate VI), 148
Haletrou, 181
Hall, Ann, 255
Halleham, Renus de, 126
Hallet, Jos., 132
Ham, Arthur, 124
Ham House, 1 15
Hambledon, William de, 19
Hampden, Elizabeth, i ; Thom-
as, I
Hampshire, Henery, 151 ; [Hen-
ry]. 152 .
Hamtunscir, 17
Hang-er, Field Name, 29
Hants Arbres, 155
Harborn Grace, Newfoundland,
120
Harding, Charles, 205
Harley, Robert, 245
Harlyn, 225
Harner, , 205 ; John, 205
Harness, Richard, 245
Harptord, 84 ; Church Band, 124
Harptree (Epetreu, Hefodtreu,
Hepetreu), 182
Harris, J. P., 69; John, 9, 20,
54,87 ; Katharine, 12 ; Philipp,
87 ; Robert, 250 ; Wilmot, 51 ;
William, 147
Hartland, 84, 112, 176; Church,
118; Church Band, 126; St.
Nychtons Monastery, 70
Hartleigh Wood, 163
Hart-Smith. See Smith, C. L.
Hart-
Harvey, William, 138
Hastings, Emmota de, 103
Hatherley, 57
Haviland, W., 136
Hawkerlond, 169
Hawkins' Epitaph, 190
Hawkridge Church Band, 254
Hawse Bridge, 48
Hawte Bridge, 48
Haydon (Heydon), Benjamin,
136; Dr., 2; John, 130; M.,
134, 136; R., 136
Hayman (Heman), 96, 119
Hayne, 54
Hayward, Election of the, 219
Haywood, , 170; John, 1S6
Head Well, iSo
Headon, Field Name, 29
Heafodtreow, See Heavitree
Heale, John, 52
Healfdenes, 17
Heanton, 161
Heard, "Painter," 126; William,
185
Heath Barton, 126
Heath St. Mary, 126
Heatree, 155, 183
Heaved Well, 180
Heaviside, 155
Heavitree, 220 ; Church Yew
Tree, 248 ; Derivation of the
Name, 127, 153, 180, 182;
Gallows, 127
Heavywood Farm, 155
Hedgeland, Philip, 132
Hefodtreu. See Harptree
Hele, Will., 221
Heller, Sarah, 11
Heliar, Robert, 44
HeHon, Herveius de, 103 ;
Robert, 103 ; Family of, 104
et seq.
Hemyock Fire, 156
Hender, John, 187
Hened, 181
Hened WiUe, 181
Hennessy, G. L., Records of
Institutions of Devonshire
Incumbents extracted by, 224
Henry de Sicca Villa, 183
Hepetreu. See Harptree
Heraldry : Saracens and Wood-
men in, 62 ; Use of Supporters
in, 63
Herbert, 183
Herberthleg, 1S5 ; Road, 184
Hern (Heme), Frederick, 180 ;
Judith, 180 ; Nathaniel, 180 ;
Sir Nathaniel, 159, 179 ; Nich-
olas, 179 ; Richard, 180 ;
Thomas, 180
Index.
267
Hern. Sam., on Sir Nathaniel
Hern, 159
Heved-tree, i8i
Hevetre (Heuetruna, Hevetrove,
Hevetroue, Hevetrowe, Heve-
trowa, Hevetruna). See
Heavitree
Hewish, John, 187
Heydon. See Haydon.
Heywood, Robert, 147
Hicks, J. G., on West Country
Clock and Watch Makers,
252
Hiern, W. P., 132
High Tree, 182
High Trees, 155
Higher Farm, 58
Higher Mill, 58
Hill (Hille), John, 221 ; Robert,
221
Hillersdon Downe, 44
Hillersdon, John, 44
Hitchcock (Hitchcocke), John,
251 ; Katherine, 251
Hockin, H. W., on Old Fire
Hooks at Truro, 73
Hoctide, 218
Hodesdon, 89
Hodge, Barnard, 156 ; Sampson
( ? Samuel ) (Plate I), 146,
(Plate H), 147
Holbeton, 85
Holcombe Burnell (Holecumba),
184; Church, 183; Preaching
Cross, 216
Holcombe Court, 256
Holcombe Rogus Church, 118;
Hounds, 203 ; Parish Accounts,
158. 203
Hole, Abraham, 245; James, 22;
Martha, 23 ; Robert, 23, 27 ;
WiUiam, 27 ; William Robert,
27 ; William Gerald, 27
Holecumba (Holecumbra). See
Holcombe Burnell
Holland Close, Field Name, 29
Holloford, Hugh, 186
Hoimeads, Field Name, 30
Holms, Thomas, 247
Holwill, 84
Honewell, 181
Honey, , 163, 201
Honeymead, Field Name, 29
HONITON : Honiton Lace Book,
250 ; Lace Making, 128, 249,
250 ; St. Michael's Church
Inscriptions, 253
Hooper, Grace, 167 ; Nicholas,
56 ; Philip, 167
Hopkins, , 228
Horn, Field Name, 29
Horse Bridge, 48
Hoskyn, Henry (Plate H), 147 ;
John (Plate II), 147
Hounds, See Hunting
Huchenson, Anne, 251 ; Ralph,
251
Hugh, 184
Hughes, T. Cann, on Tour in
North Devon, 120
Hull, (Hulle), Arthur, 241;
Robert, 221
Humphry (Humphrys), Patience,
152 ; Peter, 246
Hungerford, 219
Hunt, , 165; John, 115;
Family of, 21, 158
Hunting, 203, 256
Huntingdon, Robert, 166; Sarah,
166
Hurden, Cecilie, 55 ; Ralph, 55
Hurley, Betty, 96 ; James, 96
Huss, T., 137
Hutchins, William, 205
Hutton, (Plate I), 145
Huxtable, , 205; E., 205;
J-, 137
I. K. P., Initials on Oak Panel,
144
Ilsington (Ylsington), 84
Incumbents, Devon and Corn-
wall, 160, 224
Indiho (Indio), 63
Inns. See under names of places,
Exeter, Okehampton, etc.
Inquests. See " Crowned "
Ipplepen, 170, 171 ; Church Chal-
ice, 63
Ireland, English Settlement in,
79 ; Mines in, held by the
Edgcumb Family, 78
Isabella, Queen of Edward II,
Patron of St. Buryan, 19
Isaack (Isaacke, Isacke), Eliza-
beth, 38, 251 ; Margaret,
38; Mary, 38; Richard, 251 ;
Samuel, 38, 170, 250, 251 ;
Family of Exeter and Ottery
St. Mary, 7
Itmeraries, 60
Ivie, Jonathan, 3
J. B. Chaplin, Field Name, 30
268
Index.
J., R. on " Clyst " and " Week "
Place Names, 20
Jackson, , 126; James, 130
Jacobite Rising in Devon, 15
Jacobs, A., 205
Jamestown, Virginia, 21
Jeanes, E., 131
Jekyll, Rev. Mr., 254
Jenkins, Henry, 20
Jenner, Henry, 226
Jenney, Family and Arms of, 144
Jersey, William, 2nd Earl of, 180
Jervoise, Sir Tiiomas, 220
Jewell, Widow, 11
Johns, John, 147
Jolybloe, John, 221
Jones, Capt. Jenkin, Itinerary
of, 60 ; Mary Elizabeth Whit-
more, 249 ; Pitman, MS. of,
1 12
" Joressens," 243
Julitta, 185
Kaven, J. G., 134
Keepers of the Keys of the Com-
mon Cofifer, Election of, 219
Kekewich, Wm., 179
Kelland, John, 3, 156
Kelway Trust, 207
Kennicott (Kennycott), Comm-
ander [Gilbert], 16; Nicholas,
246
Kenshole, Calvin, 246
Kentisbeare, Field Names in
Parish of, 29
Kerfutt, Walter, 205
Kerrier, 18
Kerslake, (Plate I), 146;
(Plate H), 147
Keswick, 78
Kettery. See Kittery
Keys of the Common Coffer,
Election of Keepers of, 219
Knight, John, 161
Knoell, Isabelle, i ; Wm., i
KnoUys, Robert, 20
Knowles, John, 147
Killick, A. J., 219
Killigrew, Sir Robert, 188
Kiln Close, 59
King (Kynge), John, 71, 130
Kingsbridge Parish Register,
159, igi ; Sidgin Lane, 144
Kingsteignton Church, Oak
Panel from, 144
Kingswear Church, Coffin-shaped
tomb in, loa
Kirkham, 88
Kirkham Family, 96
Kirkup, Mary, 135
Kittery (Kettery), 48 ; Point, 138
Kola, Reeve, 240
Kynge. See King
Labbers Brook, 59
Lamley, John, 205
Lamplugh, Thomas, 20
Lamport, Grace, 135
Lamras, 58
Landulp, 117
Lane, Gates, 224
Lang, Field Name, 29
Langdon, Elizabeth, 23 ; John,
23 ; Tapper, 23
Langdon, F.E.W. on Churchill
Family, 96
Langetruna, 181
Langtree, 127, 148, 155
Langwood, R. S., 120
Lansdown, William (Plate 6),
148
Lanteglos by Fowey, 28, 64
Lantrest, 87
Lanreth, 57
Lapflod (Lapflode, Lapforde,
Laplode), Andrew, 221, 222;
Arms and Family of, 88, 123
Larder, Humphrey, 218
Larkbeare, 53
Larpent, F. de M., on Williams
Family of Falmouth, 28
Laskey, Hannah, 217
Launcells Church, 117
Launceston (Lanson), 76, 142,
193 ; Castle, 31 ; Deeds relat-
ing to, 193
Lawn, Field Name, 30
Lawrence, , 194 ; N. H. P.,
Leach (Leache), John, 169 ; Sir
Nicholas, 80
Lead Mines, 179
Leanes, Agnes, 56 ; Hugh, 56 ;
Sarah, 56 ; Susannah, 56
Lee, Samuel (Plate I), 146,
(Plate II), 147
Lega-Weekes. See Weekes,
Ethel Lega-, and Weekes, Mrs.
C. Lega-
Legg (Legge), Agnes, 254;
Dinah, 205 ; Robert, 203, 254
Lemreth, 57
Lendon, George, 186 ; Mary, 217
Lenthall, William, 89
Index,
269
Leneson, Family and Arms, 143
Lethbridge, Thomas, 25
Lieutenant's Certificates, 17
Ley, John, 147 ; Thomas, 134
Lincolne, Robert, 11
Linthicum, C. F., on Origin of
the Surname of, 95
Liddell, James, 130
Lippingcott, Family and Arms
of, 88, 122, 150
Liscombe, Richard, 205
Lissant, John, 42
Litchfield, 245
Little, Catherine, 25
Little Rag, Field Name, 29
Littlewell, 41
Liturgical MS. discovered in
Exeter Cathedral Library, 33
Llewellin, Geo. T., on Deriv-
ation of the name Heavitree,
153
Llynthicomb. See Linthicum
Loadstone, 179
Lock (Locke), Christopher, 158 ;
Elizabeth, 56
Lockard, William, 20
London Virginia Company, 212
Longwade, Field Name, 30
Lord, John, 205, 206
Lostwithiel, 193
Loughton, Manor of, no
Lousmore, Lewse, 169
Lovelace, Clock by, in Liverpool
Museum, 31
Luce, John, 41 ; Thomas, 115
Lugg, Charles, 42
Luke, John, 225
Luttrell, Elizabeth, 39, 95 ; South-
cote, 39
Luton, 217
Luxton, Elizabeth, 24 ; George,
24 ; John, 52, 162, 163 ;
Thomas, 24
Lycharde, Abbot of St. Nych-
ton's Monastery, 70
Lydd Church, 159
Lynde, John, 61
Lyon, T., 120
M., R. B., on Arthur Collins, 69 ;
on Honiton Lace Making, 249 ;
on Manor Rolls, 61
Macquerd, David, 19
Madford, 84
Madrigal on "When Moss
Caught his Mare," 20
Maines, 84
Mainwaring Family, 3
Mamhead, 154 ; Yew Trees at,
248
Mammeheve, See Mamhead
Manaton, 77, 155 ; Yew Trees,
248
Manaton, Ambrose, 77 ; Kath-
erine, 77
Manfield, J., on Devon Session
Rolls, 1693 (endorsed Hem-
yock Fire), 156
Manfield, Lawrence, 156
Manning, James, 48 ; John, 132;
Maria, 48; Mrs., 130
Manningford Family, Arms of,
54
Manor Court Rolls, 119
Manor Rolls, Central Place of
Deposit for, 61
Manors in Devonshire, Earliest
Mention of, 248
Manton, William de, 19
Manuscripts, Ancient Devon
Manuscripts,35 ; Ancient Litur-
•[ gical Manuscript discovered
in Exeter Cathedral Library,
March, R., 205
Marcy, Susana, 156
Margeria, 189, 215
Marker, Elizabeth, 39 ; Frances;
251 ; Henry (Henrie), 251, 164 ;
168, 170, 251 ; Joan, 251 ;
Margaret, 251 ; Richard, 251
Marlborough, Dukes of, 96
" Marmora," on Bonds and
Marriage Licenses, 13
Marriage Bonds and Licenses,
13
Marshall, Marschel, Agnes, 37 ;
Cicilie, 37 ; Digory, 57 ; Grace,
37 ; James, 41 ; John, 37, 41 ;
Nicholas, 222 ; Family of, 93
Martin (Martyn), John, 52;
Master, 243; R., 135; Rich-
ard James, 20
Marwood, Mr. , 24
Mary Tavy Church, 207
Mason, James Holman, 182, 183
Masy, Susana, 157
Mathews (Matthews), Christian,
22 ; James (Plate VI), 148
Maudit (Mauditt), Elizabeth, 10,
167 ; Isaac, 167 ; Mary, 9 ;
Richard, 9
Maunder, Elizabeth, 253
Maunnetreved, 154
270
Index.
Maurice, P. F,, 130
Mauste, John de, 19
Mawnan, 22
May, Elizabeth, 245 ; George, 132
Maynard, David, 19 ; James, 39 ;
John, 80 ; Mary, 39
Mayoral Elections in Churches,
18,43
Mease, Mathew (Plate VI), 148
Medal, Issued by Strode, 178,
21S ; Leaden, struck by Sir
William Strode in 1660, 178
Medenta, John de, 19
Medentor, Matthew de, 19
•' Memoriale Presbyterorum Par-
ochialum," 36
Mercer, Ann, 8 ; John, 41 ;
Thomas, 8 ; Family of, 164,
250
Merchant, Thomas, 71
Merchants' Marks, 89, 219
Merefield, 64
Merionethshire, Mines in, 78
Midwinter, John, 9 ; Mary, 9
Minifie, Eliz., 246
Miggle Hill, Field Name, 29 ;
Mines : Cornish Copper Mines,
78 ; in Devonshire, 78 ; in
Keswick, 78 ; in Merioneth-
shire, 78 ; in Ireland held by
the Edgcumb Family, 78. See
also Lead Mines, Tin Mines,
etc.
Mischell, Christopher, 31
Missal of St. Mariy-n's, 50
Mitchell, George, 166 ; James,
147 ; Lovedy, 166
Mohun, Reginald de, 86 ; Family
of, 233. See Carew-Mohun
Moleyns (Molyneux,) Adam
(Bp.), 20
Molford, Amy, 93 ; Cislly, 93 ;
John, 93 ; Susan, 93 ; Thom-
asine, 93
Monk, Christopher, Duke of
Albemarle, 254
Moore, Elizabeth, 157, 170, 171 ;
John, 166, 171 ; Mary, 157
Morcombe, , 187 ; John, 186
Moretonhampstead Church, Sav-
ery Memorials in, 31
Morgan, Hugh, 156; William,
156
Mortehoe Church, 118
Mortimer (Mortymore), 148 ;
Susanna, 159
Morwenstowe, 64
Moses, Humphrey, 156, 157
Moulton Church, 159
Mountney, Ann, 10 ; Benjamin, 9
Mudge, John, 134, 196
Mules Family, 121
Mummers, The Silverton, 228
Munckley, Mary, 48
Mundy, Matthew, 95 ; Family of,
39
Murch, F., 129
Murray, Rev. , 20
Music. See Church Bands
Mylor, 187
Narracott (Narcott, Norocott,
Narakott, Norkote), Family of,
190, 214
Naval Passing Board Certifi-
cates, 17
Nethertown Farm, 161
Nettlecombe, 54, 55
New, George, 219
New England in Plymouth, co.
Devon, Seal of the Council for
the Affairs of, 209
New Gatties of Patience, 250
Newcombe, Robert Lydston, 25
Newfoundland, 120
Newman, George, 205
Newnham House, 110
Newspaper, The First Devon-
shire, 243
Newspapers, North Devon Her-
ald, 69
Newton-Abbot, 3 Tuns [Inn], 245
Nawton Ferrers, 6, 57 ; Devon,
57 ; near Callington, Corn-
wall, 57
Newton Poppleford Church Band,
124
Newton St. Cyres Church, 117
Nibley, Field Name, 29
Nodbeer, Field Name, 29
Noper, Dog, 176
Norkote. See Narracott
Normandy , Yew Trees in Church-
yards of, 248
North Devon Herald, 69
North Molton, 171 ; Woollen
Merchants' Marks, 219
North Tamerton, 194
North Wyke, 24, 124
Northcott, Mary, 167
Northly, Dorothy, 94 ; Elizabeth,
94
Northmore, Thomas, 61, loi
Northweek (Northweeke), 22, 24
Northwich, 44
Index.
271
Northwick, 24
Norton, Family and Arms of, 86,
122, 150
'Norwich, Crossgrove s Gazette, 244
Norwich Post, 244
" Notes on the Churches of the
Deanery of Kenn," 217
Nottacott, 186
Noy, William, 176
Nutvvell, 84
Nux, on Calendars of Devon
and Cornwall Wills, 142
Nymet, John, 221
Oatway, John, 185, 186, 187, 204
Odetren, 181
Oke, Frances Walrond, 47 ;
Maria, 48 ; Walter, 47
Oke, T., on Angel Inn, Oke-
hampton, 159
Okehampton, 159 ; Manor of,
82
Old Newnham, no
"Old Sarum " on Newton Fer-
res : Error in Cal Ing., 6
Oldbeiffe, Family and Arms, of,
143;
" Olive," 128
Oliver (Oliuer), Benjamin, 166,
171, 172 ; Elizabeth, 171 ;
Joan, 223 ; John, 171 ; Joseph,
166, 170, 171 ; Margaret, 170,
171, 224; Mary, 171 ; Richard,
223
Oliver Dr. (George), Library of,
61
Orchard, Family and Arms of,
86, 97, 122
Organ Makers, 241-3
Ormond, James Butler, 2nd
Duke of, 13
Osbert, Dean of Dunesford, 184
Osborne, Ann, 8 ; Edward, 8 ;
Robert, 132
Ossingold, Agnes, 37 ; Walter,
37
Otercey, John, 205
Ottery St. MARY(Awtree, Otri,
Otrei, Otria, Otrit, Otritona,
Otterrie, Ottregia), 127, 168,
170, 171, 181, 182, 220; Church,
117; The Lamb [Inn], 245;
Parish Register, 5
Overton, 220
Oxnam, Ann, 12 ; John, 9
Oxton, John, 221 ; Robert, 221
Oyens, Peter, 252
P.I.K., Initials on Oak Panel, 144
Paganus, 240
Page, Mary, 96; Thomas (Plate
VI.), 148; Sir William, 96
Palmer, F. W. Morton, on the
Second Duke of Ormond and
Devonshire, 13
Parham, , 145
Parish Candle, 239
Parish Priests, Low Status of,
102
Parish Register Inaccuracies, 5,
53
Park, Bovey Tracey, 25
Parker, Mary, 217
Parkhouse, Hannah, 138 ; Philip,
138
Parkyn, Major, 226
Parstoe, Wm., 21
Passmore, R., 205
" Patstoe." See St. Petrock Stow
Payn (Payne), Robert Fitz, 185 ;
Thomas, 52
Pearce, Richard, 189, 226
Pearde, John, 71 ; Nicholas, 71 ;
William, 70, 71
Peardon, Sam., 201
Pearse, John, 186
Peche. See Peck
Peck, Family and Arms of, 143
Pecketsford, 23
Pelican, The, 64
Pemberthy, James, 224
Pendennis Castle, 187
Pengelly, Francis, 11 ; John
Francis, 3 ; Roger, 10 ;
Penhele, 88
Penna, Richard, 184
Penny, James, 133; John, 11
Pennycross, Burrington in Wes-
ton Peveral alias, 32
Penrose, Edmond, 188; Ed-
ward, 188
Penryn, 187
Penwith, 18
Percivall, Sir Philip, 80
Peream, George, 206 ; Hester,
206
Perkins, (Plate VI.), 148
Perridge, 185
Peter, Emily Frances, 225 ;
Gwladys Theodora, 225 ; John,
225 ; John Luke, 225 ; Richard,
194; Robert, 225; Thurstan,
225 ; William, 37
Peter Tavy Church Band, 149
Fetters, Jeremiah, 156
272
Index.
Pewterers, Notes on West Coun-
try, 145
Phelp, Mr., 131
Philip (Philp) , 138; T., 131
Pickard, , 177
Pierce Patent, 21 1
Pike (Pik, Pyk), James, 64 ;
Thomas, 221 ; William, 64
Pill, Fra, 205
Pine, Ann, 167; John, 167;
Malachy, 167 ; Mary, 167
Pinhoe, Payments to the Vicar
of, 240
Pinn Close, Field Name, 29
Pinney, 47
Piper Family, 31
Pipes. See Tobacco Pipes
Pixey Mead, Pixey Pool, Field
Names, 29
Place House, Tisbury, 112
Plumtrei, 181
Plymtree, 127, 166, 171
Plymouth, 14, 15, 179, 212 ;
Bequest for Erecting Roof of
Guildhall, 52 ; Bequest for
Making a Shambles, 52 ; Be-
quest for Maintenance of a
Preacher in, 52 ; Bequest for
Maintaining the Castles in, 52 ;
Charles Church, 172, 207 ; De-
fences of, 52 ; Grammar School,
172, 207 ; Inns, Pope's Head,
136 ; (Mass.), Colony, 211-214;
Mayoral Elections in Church
of, 18; New England, 209;
St. Andrew's Church, 3, 172 ;
Tobacco Pipes, 114
Plympton, Simon de, no; St.
Mary Church, no
Plymptree, 42
Pococke, Richard, 199
Pollard, Jane, 54 ; Sir Lewis, 54
Pole, Katherine, i ; William, i ;
Monument in Colyton Church, i
Pomeray, 122
Pomeray's Heavitree, 182
Pomery, Leonard, 53 ; W., 137
Pont (De Ponte,) Family and
Arms of, 85, 121, 150
Pope, John, 133 ; Thomas, 7-^
Popham, , 210; Alexander,
I ; John, I ; Katherine, i
Portbury, George, 133 ; Henry,
Portman, Family and Arms of,
97. 98
Portreeve, Election of, 219
Poughill Church, 117; Church
Band, 202
Poundstock Church Band, 201
Powdershire, iS
Pownoll, Jacob Acworth, 80 ;
Mary, 80 ;
Poynter, Frances, 189 ; John,
170 ; William, 189
Prance, , 113; Isaac, 113
Pratellis Family, 81
Prato Family, 81
Pratt, Frances, 251 John, 44,
45 ; Richard, 251 ; William,
43
" Prayer Book" Rebellion, 233
Praz Family. See Prowse
Preaux (Preux), Family oi, 81
Preston, Phicknett, 112
Prestwood, Family and Arms of,
144
Price, , 205
Prideaux, Edith, K., on Remains
of an Ancient Building in
Exeter (Preston Street), 4 ; on
Sittings in Churches, 159
Prideaux, Edmund, 250 ; Mar-
garet, 166, 171 ; Nicholas,
165 ; William, 123
Prideaux, H. Maxwell, on Sur-
name Prideaux, 240
Prideaux, Surname, 208, 240
Priests. See Parish Priests, 102
Princetown Church, 182
Printers, Devonshire, 129, 196
Prisons, 59
Probus Family 81
Proteitant Mercury y or the Exeter
Post Boy, 15, 244
Prouse Family. See Prowse
Prout, Robert, 149
Prouz. See Prowse
Prowse Family, 104 ; Family
Arms and Memorials in Chag-
ford Church, 81, 121, 150
Prust, Hugh, 118; John, 70, 73 ;
Thomas, 70, 71
Pruz. See Prowse
Putt, Margaret, 253 ; Thomas,
60 ; William, 253
Pydarshire, 18
Pyk. See Pik
Pyl, Robert de, 102
Pyne, Philip, 119
Pytt, 169
Q., J., on Crest of Strode, 178
Quick, William, 113
Index.
273
R., A. L., on Newnham, no |
R., J. H., on " Hayman Family,"
96 ; on Hospital of St. John, ]
Bridgwater, 64
Raab Gard's Tenement, 22
Radford, Elizabeth, 41
Radford, E. L., on Crest of
Strode, 179
Rainstone. See Renston
Ralei,^h, Sir Walter, 79 ; Walter,
118, 235
Ralph, 184; son of Bernard,
183, 184
Randall Family, 200
Rashleigh, , 188 ; Anne, 188 ;
Jonathan, 188
RatcHff, T., 136
Rattery, 181 ; Church Incum-
bents of, 224
Ratrew, iSi
Raw, Dorothy, 43
Rayer, , 203
Raymant, John, 71
Rayner, Mr., 256
Redruth, Deeds Relating to, 193
Redvers, Mary, 85 ; William de
(de Vernonj, 82, 84 ; Arms, 84
Reichel, Oswald J., on Cal-
church, 126; on Heavitree,
182 ; on Hoctide, 218 ; on
" History of the Parish Church
of St. Mary Magdalene, Barn-
staple," 61 ; on Teigngrace
Church, 108, on Teigngrace
Church and Early Consecra-
tion, 197; on "The Family
and Heirs of Sir Francis
Drake," 32
Renni, Robert, 184; Robert de,
184
Renston (Rainstone, Reynston),
Arms and Family of, 87, 122
Restorick, John, 88
Rew, Joseph, 205
Rewallin, Charles, 241 ; Martha,
242
Reynell-Upham. See Upham,
W. U. Reynell-
Reynolds, Charles, 177
Reynston. See Renston
Rhymes, John Wm., 200
Richards, John 169
Richardson, Adnam, 130
Richmond, Margaret, Countess
of, 23
Richmond's Lands, 23
RifFord, William de, 184
Rikard, Mark, 149
Rill, 12
Rippon, , 194
Rippon, Arthur, on Ancient
Devon Clay Tobacco Pipes,
"3
Risdon, Marj', 23 ; Richard, 23
Risford, Adam de, 183
Roads, Devonshire, 185
Robert, Bp. of Exeter about
1 150, 184
Roberts, Evan, 206
Robbins, Alfred F., on Gennys
of Launceston, 76
Roffe, John, 223
Rogers, G. Henrj', 148
RoUe, George, 161 ; Henry, i6t ;
Arms and Family of, 98, 99
Root, John, 220
Rose, F. C, on " Captain Thom-
as Cuttle," 64
Rouge-et-Noir, on Destruction
of Vermin, 208
Row (Rowe), Joseph, 149 ; Family
of East Ogwell, 126 ; of Hart-
land, 126
Rowe, John Hambley, on Calen-
dars of Devon and Cornwall
Wilis and Administrations, 57
Rudge, , 169
Rue Tins, Field Name, 30
RufiFus, Richard, 183, 184
Rugge, Thomas, 42
Ruins Well, Field Name, 29
Rupibus, Peter de (Bp)., 103
Russell, Jane, 135 ; Robert, 184
Rychards, , 170
S., A. J. P., on Animiel Weekes,
208 ; on Brudenell M.I. in
Sandford Church, 92 ; on
Early Tours in Devon and
Cornwall, 199 ; on Josias
Trevelyan, 54 ; on Kirkham
and Westofer Families, 96 ;
on Laetitia Drake, 89 ; on
Mercer Family, 250 ; on Rich-
ard Rose Drewe, 49 ; on Wives
of John Coleridge, 217
S., G., 187 ; on Crest of Strode
of Devon, 128, 218
S., H. T-. , on Thomas Wain-
wright, 68
Sackville, Lady, 53
Sacrament Land Charity, 59
Sagadahock, 210
Saint, Silvester, 186
274
Index.
St. BURYAN: Deansof, ig; Cyres
(Cyriacus), 185; Gerrans, 172,
178 ; John in the Wilderness,
Yew Tree at, 248 ; John's Hos-
pital, Cartulary of, 50 ; Julitta,
Castle of, 184, 185 ; Levan, 20;
Malo, 14, 15 ; Mawes Castle,
187 ; Minver, 193 ; Pancras-
\fveek, 182 ; Petrock Stow,
(Patstow), 163 ; Petrock Stow
Church Band 161 ; Probus,
81 ; Sativola's Well, 181 ; Sen-
nen, 20
Salt, A., 219
Saltash, 212
Salter, Hannah, 12 ; Katherine,
251 ; Nicholas, 251 ; William,
138
Samborne, James, 219
Sampford atte Peverell, 84
Sampford Coiirtenay, 23
Sampson, Anne, 251 ; Grace, 167
John, 251 ; Katherine, 251
Nicholas, 167; Samuel, 167
Thomas, 251
Sanborn, V. C, on Bradsel
Family, 220
Sancy, John, 19
Sander (Sanders, Saunders),
, 201, 202; Ann, 170;
Simon, 148
Sanderson, John, 186
Sandford, Christopher, 242
Sandford Church, 1 18 ; Brudenell
M.I. in, 92
Santon Court, 39
Saracens and Woodmen in Her-
aldry, 62
Sarle, Amboras, 156
Saunders. See Sanders
Savery Family and Memorials, 31
Savidge, John, 206
Savin Tree, 128, 157, 178, 218
Say, Leticia de, 184
Sayer, Mathw., 205, 206
Scadding, Aaron, 157 ; James,
205 ; John, 156
Scoble, John S., 205
Score, Edward, 133 ; Sarah, 168
Scotisham, Will., 221
Scrip Gard, Field Name, 29
Scudamore, Family and Arms
of, 89, 123
Seago, J,, 75
Seal of the Council of the Affairs
of New England in Plymouth,
CO. Devon, 209
Seaman, Nath., 246
Searle, Ambrose, 157
Second Plymouth Co., 209
Second Plymouth Patents, 213
Second Virginia Colony, 209
Selfe, , 95 ; Cicillie, 43 ; John,
43
Semar, 184
Senior, Chri., 250
Serjeant, , 194
Sesse, Cicillie, 43 ; John, 43, 95
Sessions Rolls. See Devon Sess-
ion Rolls
Shapleig-h Alexander, 48
Shapley Family, 139
Shaw, Justin H., on Kittery,
Devon, 48
Shearme, John, on Church Bands,
200
Shears, Jack, on Bovey and the
Coronationof Queen Victoria, 2
Shears, Mrs. John, 2
Sheetlake, 45
Shepherd (Shepperd), John, 71 ;
John Chiene, 225 ; Mrs., 225
Sherman, Gertrude, 217 ; John,
169
Sherwill, Tho., 53
Sherwood, Field Name, 29
Shile, John, 42
Shillingford, John, Manuscript
by, 35
Shillingford Story, A, 29, 90
Shilston, 31
Shimbles, , 185
Shire, Use of Term, 17
Shobrooke, 171
Shop Signs, " Bible and Quad-
rant," 132
Shorland, Field Name, 30
Short, Charity, 246 ; William,
126
Shorthand, MS. on, by T. Rat-
cliflf of Plymouth, 136
Shutlake, 45
Sidwell, 181
Siege of Derry, 250
Sigdure Lane, Kingsbridge, 144
Silver : Combemartin Silver
Mines, 128 ; Gilt Chalice in
Ipplepen Church, 63
Silverton Mummers, 228
Silvester, Peter, 52
Simon, 183
Simonds (Simons), Isayah, 42 ;
A., 205, 206
Sittings in Churches, 116
Index.
275
Skeffington, Family and Arms
of, 89, 143
Skinner, A. J. P., on Armory on
Pole Monument in Colyton
Church, I ; on Ayer of Fen
Ottery, 37, 93 ; on Isack of
Ottery St, Mary and Exeter,
7 ; on Marriage of John Edye,
47 ; on Mercer of Ottery St.
Mary, 164
Slade, 56
Slade, Nicholas, 20
Sleeper, Richard, 186
Slowly, Mary, 37, 95
Smafet, Josua, 52
Smale, , 207
Smeelh, Robt., 158
Smith, C. L. Hart-, 193 ; Sir
James, 10 ; John, 210 ; Robert,
203; W., 193
Snell, E., 205
Soldon, 165
Soligny, Emma, 28
Some Studies in the Topography
of the Cathedral Close, 189, 215
Somerhaies, John, 156, 157
Soper, H. Tapley-, on Ancient
Devon Manuscripts, 36 ; on
C. R. Hart-Smith, 193 ; on
Charles Rewallin, Virginal
Maker, 241 ; on Inventory of
the Goods of Henery Hamp-
shire, 151 ; on Mayoral Elec-
tions in Churches, 19 ; on
North Molton Woollen Mer-
chants'Marks, 219 ; on Parish
Register Inaccuracies, 5 ; on
Piper Family, 31 ; on Stoke
Gabriel Sextons, 214; on West
Country Clock and Watch
Makers, 204
South Molton, 171
South Tawton, 23 ; Church, 124;
Messuage of Northweekein, 22
Southbrook, 84
Southcombe, Humfrye, 169
Southcott, Sir George, 87 ;
Judith, 87; Thomas, 39;
Family and Arms of, 87
Southern Virginia Colony, 211
Sowton, 171 ; Church Flagon,
Sale of, 91
Sparkes, Dr., 194; Miss, 194
Sparrow, Anthony, 20
Sparsholt Church, no
Spencer, .137; Hannah, 49;
Jane, 49; Joan, 123; John, 123
Spencerscombe, 123
Spiller, Betty, 96 ; Elizabeth, 96 ;
Thomas, 96
Sporier, John, 220, 223
Squires, John, 124
Stanhope, Fitzroy Henry
Richard, 20
Stanton, Harcourt, 166
Starr (Starre), Anna, 55 ; Anne,
55 ; Cicilie, 55 ; John, 55
Stawell Arms and Epitaph in
Bovey Tracy Church, 25
Steer, Mrs. , 194
Steevens, George, 250
Stephen, 184 ; Edmond, 187 ;
Henry, 187
Stickweek, 27
Stiff, William (Plate VI.), 148
Stockdall MS., 112
Stocker, , 205
Stoddon, Saml., 132
Stoford, G., 164; George, 37;
Grace, 37 ; Sarah, 41
Stoke Bliss, 220
Stoke Gabriel, Transcript of
Register of, 214 ; Yew Tree
at, 248 ; Sextons of, 190, 214
Stoke Hill, Exeter, Coal Found
at, 100
Stoke Saint Nyctans, 71
Stokenham Church Band, 200
Stokes, Allen de, 19; Jane, 55 ;
John, 55
Stone, , 207
Stooke, A. T., 60 ; Edward,
59; George, 59; John, 59;
Thomas, 59 ; William, 59
Stooke of Waddon, and Clifford
of Chudleigh, 59
Stowell, Sir John, 23
Stowford Arms, 11
Stradling, Sir Edward, i
Stratton Church Band, 200
Street, 204
Strode, Family and Arms of, 1 10,
128, 157, 178, 179, 219
Strong, W., 131
Strowbridge, , 205, 206 ;
H., 206
Stuckely, Ann, 54 ; Hugh, 54 ;
Sir Hugh, 54 ; Nicholas, 54 ;
Sir Thomas, 54
Stuckle, Peter, 20
"Student of Miniatures," on
Richard Crosse, 224
Stumbels (Stumble, Stumbles),
205, 206
276
Index.
Styelands, Field Name, 29
Sug-ar Lane, Sugary Cove, Sig-
dure Lane, 144
Surnames and Prefix *' De," 93 ;
Norman, 144
Surrey, Hamelyn, Earl of, 81
Sutcombe Church, 123-4
Sutton Bonnington Church, 159
Swayn, Ralph, 220
Sweet James, 39
Sweetland, Abel, 133; Margaret,
133
Swiftsure, 245
Sydenham, Jane, 224
Sykes, Arthur Ashley, 20
Symes, Christopher, 7 ; Mar-
garet, 7
Symons, Henry, 57
T., J, W., on Crest of Strode, 179
Talaton Parish Register, 6
Tapley-Soper, H. See Soper,
H. Tapley-
Tapp, Joey, 192
Tarr Mill, 22, 24, 25
Tartarin, 223
Taunton Museum, 241
Tavener, Nicholas, 221 ; Robert,
223 ; William, 223
Taw, River, 23
Taylor, A. F., on West Country
Clock and Watch Makers, 33
Taylor, Joanna, 13 ; Joseph, 3 ;
T., 100
Tedburn Church, 218
Tehidy, 188
Teigngrace Church, 173, 197 ;
Dedication of, 74, 108
Teignmouth, Landing of French
at, 13
Templer, George, 75 ; James,
75 ; John, 75
Tenante, Thomas, 170
Terry, , 207
Theuborough, 123
Thomas, John, 42
Thorn, 40
Thorn (Thome), , 205 ;
Abraham, 207 ; B. and Son,
134, 136 ; Barrabas, 100 ;
Michl., 205; Nathaniel, 134;
Simon, 207
Thornton, William Henry, 65
Thorry, 118
Thrange, 221
Three Christones (or Three
Christians), Field Name, 29
Thrift, Gertrude, on Gennys
Family, 63
Throwleigh, 85, 104, 105
Thurible, 222
Tidwell-cum-Budley, 47, 48
Tillet. See Tilley
Tilley (Tylly, Tillet), Arms and
Family of, 87, 122
Time and Tide, 250
Tin Mines, 179
Tinkley Lane, 59
Tintagel Church, 117
Tipton, 10, 12; Mow (Mowe),
10, 12
Tison, Forest of, 81
Tithing-men, Election of, 219
Tiverton, Fairfax at, 58
Tobacco Pipes, 1 13
Todde, Richard, 13. See also
Browne, alias Todde
Tom Putt Apples, 60
Tombs. See Coffin-shaped
Tombs
Tomkins, H. A. C, 54
Top Tree, 182
Topsham Tobacco Pipes, 113
Tor Abbey, no; Royal Chapel,
182, 183
Torboch Hall, Lanes., 3
Torboch, Margaret, 3 ; William, 3
Torpoint Church Band, 126
Totnes, 119, 203 ; Chapel of St.
Edmund, 254 ; Mayoral Elec-
tions in Church of, 18, 19 ;
Grammar School, 254
" Tour in North Devon," 120
Townsend, Amy, 256 ; Harriet,
256 ; James, 256
Trace, Edwin, 163 ; William,
161, 162
Tralee Castle, 76
Treasure, John, 188
Trecarell, 77
Tredegar, 127
Tregoning, , 138
Tregony, 172
Trelawny Family, 115; Patent,
211, 212
Trelowarren, 187
Treneglos, 183
Trevelyan Family, 54
Trevena, 127
Treverton, James, on West
Country Clock and Watch
Makers, 30
Trevett Arms, 97, 98
Treviles, 225
Index.
277
Trevor, Richard, 205
Trevvirgfie, 225
Trewlawny, Jonathan, 20
Trewman, John, 170 ; Mary, 170 ;
R. and Son, 134
Tribble, Edward, 115
Triconshire, 18
Trist, Joseph, 205
Trobrigge, Peter, 220
Trosse, G. , 132 ; Thomas, 166
Troup, Frances Rose-, on Deri-
vation of the name Heavitree,
181 ; on Exeter Cathedral Li-
brary, 177, 195; on "Some
studies in the Topography of
the Cathedral Close," 189
Trull Church, 117
Truro, Fire Hooks at, 73 ; In-
stitution, 226
Trusham (Sacrament Land Char-
ity), 59
Truthwall, 224
Trycke, John, 71 ; William, 71
Tucker, John, 206 ; Marwood,
194 ; R., 205, 206
Tucketts, Field Name, 29
Turke, John, 156
Turner, Henry, 250
Tuthill, Joseph, 12
Tykenham, 80
Tyneham, 62
Tyrlyng, Alexander, 169
Tyrwhitt, Sir John, 183 ; Thomas,
182
U., W. R., on Dorothy Worth,
64
Ugbrook, 59
Uglow, Geo., 185
Uppam, Thomas, 52
Upper Clatford, 219
Upham, W. U. Reynell-, on An-
thony Goddard and the De-
fences of Plymouth, 52 ; on
Edward Drew's Sword, 37
Upjohn, Petr., 206
v., E. Q., on Ericke Family, 224
" Vair," 208
Veale, T.H., 149
Ven Ottery. See Fenn Ottery
Venner, Richard, 242
'• Veritas," on Kittery, Devon,
138
Vermin, Destruction of, 208
Verneworthie, Jerome, 52 ;
Philipp, 52
Vernon, Redvers de ; William
de, 82, 84
Veysey, John, 118
Vibert, J. P., 204, 205
Victoria, Queen, Bovey and the
Coronation of, 2
Virginia, First and Second
Colonies of Virginia, 209, 210 ;
London Virginia Co., Arms of,
212 ; Southern Virginia Colony,
210
Virginal, made at Exeter, A, 241
Visitations of Devon, Corrections
to, 190, 200
Vivian (Vyvyan), Family of, 187,
189, 224
Vye, John, 255
W., E,, on Hayman Family, 120;
on Mayoral Elections in
Churches, 19
W., E. L., on Hunt Family, 158
W., H. R., on Dr. Oliver's
Library, 61
W., J., on Collins Family, 115;
on West Country Clock and
Watch Makers, 252
Wadacott (Wadecote), Family
and Arms of, 86, 121, 150
Waddon, 60
Wadham, Dorothy, 64 ; Giles,
64 ; Nicholas, 64
Wainwright, Thomas, 68
Wakeman, , 10
Walcombes, 171
Waldron (Walldron, Wallrond,
Wallrand), Ann, 38, 251, 255 ;
Anstice, 250 ; Edmund, 11, 38 ;
Elizabeth, 250 ; Henry, 47, 48 ;
John, 47, 48, 205 ; Margaret,
251 ; William, 251
Walker, Sir Havendon, 245 ;
Samuel, 135
Wallis, James, 137
Walter, 184; J., 134; Sam.,
126
Warbstow, 183
Ward, Seth, 20
Ware, Ellen, 10 ; Frances, 41 ;
George, 170 ; Jane, 41 ; Mary,
10
Warman, Simcn, 117
Warren, Warrene, Mrs. Michal,
246 ; Isabella de, 81
Watch Makers. See Clock and
Watch Makers
Water Bailiffs, Election of, 219
278
hidex.
Watkin, Hugh R., on Ashton
Parish Church, loi ; on Yew
Trees in Devon and Cornwall,
249
Watson, W. G. Willis, on
"Crowned," 191
Watts Family, Arms of, 98
Wavish, James, 126
Waycott, Peter, 30, 186 ; Rich-
ard, 30 ; Robert, 30 ; William,
30
Weatherdon, , 135
Weatherley, R., 137
Weaver, Peter, 13
Webber, John, 146 (Plate III),
147, 148, 170
Week, 43, 44 ; Place Name, 20,
92
Weekes, Clement, 47; Elizabeth,
47 ; John, 20, 22, 23 ; Family
of, 208
Weekes, Ethel Lega-, on Ancient
Liturgical MS. Discovered in
Exeter Cathedral Library, ^3 ;
on Arms of Q. Elizabeth, 63 ;
on Eggbuckland, 1 1 5 ; on Early
Churchwardens' Accounts of
St. Mary Major, 220, 239 ; on
Hunt Family in Devonshire, 21,
158; on Remains of an Ancient
Building in Exeter, 49 ; on
Sigure Lane, Kingsbridge,
144 ; on " Some Studies in the
Topography of the Cathedral
Close," 215 ; on Teigngrace
Church and Early Consecra-
tion, 173 ; on Wyke Arms, 123
Weekes, Mrs. C. Lega-, on
Prowse (Prouse) Memorials in
Chagford Church, 81, 150
Welcombe, Parish of, 70, 112
Wellshire, 18
Welsnian, William; 124
Wendover, Margaret, 56
Wenfort, 128
Wenscott, John, 243
Wenyngton, Robert, 64
Were, F., on Ashton Parish
Church, 151 ; on Drake and
Skeffington, 143 ; on Prouse
Memorials in Chagford
Church, 121
West Aimer, 248
West Challacombe, 86
"West Country," on Will of
Captain John BonN'thon, 187
West, James, 206 ; Rachael, 206
West Newton, Cornwall, 6
Wescott (Wcstcott), Drusilla,
53 ; Mary, 53 ; Philip, 6, 53
Westcote, Thomas, Residence
of, 62
Western, " Lot H.," The, 25
Western Rebellion, The, 233
Westervale, 85
Westhome, Henry, 170
Westofer Family, 96
Weston, John, 3
Westmed (Wethemed), Jordan
de, 184
Weymouth, Samuel, 57
Whale, T. W., 150
Wheaton, Messrs., 133
When Moss Caught his Mare,
20
Whicken, John, 55
Whiddon, Francis, 37 ; Grace,
37
Whip Hill, Field Name, 29
Whitby, WiUm., 185
Whitchurch, 3 ; Church, 207
Whitfeld, H., 137
Whitleigh, 85
Whitstone, 126
Wibbery, 88, 150
Wicganbeorge, 17
Wich (Wick), 43. 5^e also Week
Widecomb, 85
Widecombe-in-the-Moor, 182, 183
Widworthy Family, 121
Wig Curlers, 115
Wikeslond, M[aster], Richard,
221
Wilastreu, 181
Wilington, Ralph de, 28
Wilkinson, Rebecca, 9
Williams, John Charles, 226
Willes (Wills), , 170; Sir
Chaning, 150 ; John, 246
Wills, Calendars of Devon and
Cornwall, 57, 142
William, 184
William the Marshall, 183
WilHams, (Plate III), 147 ;
, 148 ; A., 148 ; Elizabeth,
172 ; Joseph, 135 ; William,
172
Williams Family of Falmouth, 27
Willoughby, Roger, 148 ; Family
Arms of, 96
Willshire (Wilshire), T. (Plate
III), 147, 148; W., 148
Wilson, Aaron, T72
Winde, Susanna, 167
Index.
279
Windeatt, Edward, on Robert
Leg-ge, 202, 254 ; on Stooke
of Waddon and CliflPord of
Chudleigh, 58 ; on Teigngrace
Church, 73
Windham, Sir William, 14
Windsor (Wynsor), Dean and
Canons of, 10
Windy Cross, 216
Winnacott, , 162
Witches, 115
Witestan, 126
Wodlegh, Agnes, 223
Wolveston, Richard de, 19
Wone, River, 127
Wonford, 128, 182
Wood, Anne, 54; Mrs. J., 120;
Nicholas, 157 ; Sir Thomas,
54
Wood Carving in Churches, 1 16-9
Woodland, 88
Woodley, Edmond, 176
Woodman, J., 130, 133
Woodmen and Saracens in
Heraldry, 62
Wooland, , 194
Woolcombe, Louis, 163
Woollen Merchants' Marks, 219
Woolmer, Shirley, 134
Wootton, William, 1 1
Worth, Dorothy, 64 ; Humphry,
64
Worthy, Stephen, 246
Wressing, Field Name, 29
Wright, Thomas, 42
Wybbery, Family and Arms of,
98, 122
Wyke, 43
Wyke, Family and Arms, 23,
26, 105, 123
Wykes, Elizabeth, 23 ; Martha,
23 ; Mary, 23
Wyot, Phillippe, 94
Yarde, Ezekiel, 41
Ybotte, John, 70
Yelverton, Katheryn, 251
Yeo, Philip, 134
Yew Trees, 157, 178-9, 218, 247
"Ygrec" on The Dog Whipper,
176
Yonge (Younge), Alice, 96 ; Sir
Wm., 199
York, 245
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